My mom comes from a really out-there upbringing, so for her, the way she raised me is pretty disciplined. I was home-schooled but more really unschooled, really.

- Ellar Coltrane

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

- James MacArthur

I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.

- Joaquin Phoenix

My upbringing as a child was very atypical.

- Jason Bateman

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

- James Taylor

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

- Idris Elba

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

- Graham Swift

I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.

- Georg Solti

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

- Fiona Shaw

Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever.

- Anderson Cooper

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

- Eric Schlosser

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

- Dan Fogelberg

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

- David Rockefeller

The whole upbringing was interesting because we grew up Orthodox Jews all the way until we were teenagers.

- Benny Fine

I had a very modest upbringing.

- Balthazar Getty

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

- Billy Bragg

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

- Abigail Washburn

I feel a responsibility to myself, and not so much for the world at large. Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

- Anton Corbijn

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

- Anselm Kiefer