I Was Raised Quotes

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
Tupac Shakur

Society, Mother, Reality

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Oprah Winfrey

Life, Best, Racism

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
Will Smith

Church, Crush, Muslim

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.
Ellen DeGeneres

Gay, Around, Raised

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.
Ellen DeGeneres

Sad, Person, Sometimes

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.
Ellen DeGeneres

Faith, School, Sunday

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.
Kim Kardashian

Influence, Holidays, Stories

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
John Waters

God, Sex, Dirty

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
Lou Holtz

Wife, Religious, Known

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.
Martina McBride

Work, Hard, Big

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
Dick Wolf

Work, Best, Rude

I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.
Jon Stewart

Great, Born, City

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
Steve Martin

Alone, Romantic, Person

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.
Steve Martin

Love, School, Yourself

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sally Field

Time, Judge, Long

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
Al Sharpton

Life, Family, Food

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
Billy Corgan

Good, Father, Guitar

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
Billy Corgan

God, Focus, Christian

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.
Jeff Bridges

Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.
Alicia Machado

Men, Guy, Along

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
John Cusack

Enough, Old, Until

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
Ken Kesey

Christian, Head, Acid

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
Camille Paglia

Nature, Great, Spiritual

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.
Katy Perry

Movies, School, Different

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.
Julie Andrews

Through, Kinds, Background

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.
Diego Maradona

Best, Mother, Thinks

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
Anne Lamott

Parents, Help, Try

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.
Roy Rogers

Farm, Miles, Ohio

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.
Michael Bloomberg

Happy, Proud, Judaism

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.
Sonia Sotomayor

Work, Two, Nation

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