I Was Born And Raised Quotes

#1. I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

Will.i.am

#2. I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

Denis O'Hare

#3. I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church ... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.

Tom Araya

#4. My dad is from Panama; he came to the U.S. in 1971. He came to study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware. He thought he would go back, and then he met my mom here. I was born and mostly raised in Delaware.

Cristina Henriquez

#5. I am asked if I think the war was a just war ... how can I answer? I was a boy born and raised in beautiful Leningrad, a boy who loved his parents and went obediently to school. A boy who was yanked out of that life and dumped in a strange land where life followed different rules.

Vladislav Tamarov

#6. I'm a half-breed. You know, I'm Puerto Rican and Norwegian from descent, and I grew up, born and raised in New York City, and I stood out amongst my friends in my community. I was very blond-haired, white, and 'Lemonhead' was the name that they gave me.

Lemon Andersen

#7. I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household.

Kathryn Harrison

#8. I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

Natalia Vodianova

#9. I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

Marion Cotillard

#10. I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives.

Marisa Miller

#11. I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

Aida Turturro

#12. My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

Rita Wilson

#13. I look back at my elementary or high school pictures and I always had gel in my hair and a gold chain that I would wear outside my shirt. That's how I was born and raised as an Italian male, and I always considered myself a Guido, anyway.

Pauly D

#14. I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

Maajid Nawaz

#15. I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

Will.i.am

#16. I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

Ziad Doueiri

#17. I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.

Dambisa Moyo

#18. I was born a Saxon, but raised by Danes, my daughter had married a Norseman, my dearest friend was Irish, my woman was a Saxon, the mother of my children had been Danish, my gods were pagan, and my oath was sworn to AEthelflaed, a Christian. Whose side was I on?

Bernard Cornwell

#19. I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Monica Raymund

#20. I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

Ami Bera

#21. People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.

Dikembe Mutombo

#22. I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.

Desmond Dekker

#23. I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

Naomi Campbell

#24. Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name.

Tupac Shakur

#25. As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

Neil Armstrong

#26. I was born in 1943 and raised in the Bronx, in a high rise apartment complex known as Parkchester, the only child of Max, an accountant who worked in the garment district in Manhattan, and Rose, an elementary school teacher.

Robert Lefkowitz

#27. I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!

Jonathan Groff

#28. I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.

Larry The Cable Guy

#29. I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.

Jake T. Austin

#30. I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.

Pat Conroy

#31. I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.

Maajid Nawaz

#32. I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!

Tammy Blanchard

#33. I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable.

Steve Irwin

#34. I was born and raised in L.A. My father was born and raised in L.A. So we're old hands here.

Tim Matheson

#35. I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.

Hugo Chavez

#36. I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.

Michael B. Jordan

#37. I definitely have a soft spot for women. I was raised by women - my mom and two older sisters. I've been surrounded by estrogen since I was born.

Jessie Pavelka

#38. I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.

Toks Olagundoye

#39. I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I'm born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don't speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker.

America Ferrera

#40. I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is Tuskegee. I was born and raised there, it's not just someplace I passed through one day.

Lionel Richie

#41. I was born and raised in Denver, CO.

Annaleigh Ashford

#42. I was born and raised Catholic.

Tom Araya

#43. I grew up in The Bronx. I mean, I was born and raised in New York City. And I started singing in Spanish because I was always just connected to my Latin roots.

Prince Royce

#44. I was born in New York and raised in South Florida, so I'm an East Coast girl.

Cassie Scerbo

#45. I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

Harry Reid

#46. My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives.

Robbie Robertson

#47. If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn't be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.

Krishna Das

#48. I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

Sally Rand

#49. Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.

Arthur Rock

#50. I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all.

Sean Berdy

#51. As someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I was really interested in the idea of people who move here to get into the business, and some of them do become famous and then oftentimes they fall out of that fame in very terrible ways.

Amber Tamblyn

#52. The terrorists that attacked us in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. And I bet you we wish we would have had access to five years of his records so we could see who he was working with.

Marco Rubio

#53. In Colombia, where I was born and raised, women like my mother considered their appearance and personal grooming a matter of principle. There was never an occasion where she didn't show up looking picture-perfect.

Nina Garcia

#54. My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.

Nouriel Roubini

#55. Over the years, I've lived in a variety of places, including America, but I was born and raised in the Lake District, in Cumbria. Growing up in that rural, sodden, mountainous county has shaped my brain, perhaps even my temperament.

Sarah Hall

#56. I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles.

Dee Snider

#57. For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free.

Dominique Moceanu

#58. I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I was embraced by the Downtown scene since the 1980s. For the record I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

Vaginal Davis

#59. I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.

Osric Chau

#60. I'm not an immigrant - I was born and raised in New York. My parents are Puerto Rican, and Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., for the people that don't know. So my whole life, I've identified as an American. There are times when I've gone to Puerto Rico, and there, I'm seen as the American cousin.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

#61. I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

Robert Jay Lifton

#62. I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

Gillian Flynn

#63. I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

Dinaw Mengestu

#64. I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.

Joey Lauren Adams

#65. I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.

Hampton Sides

#66. I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.

Darby Stanchfield

#67. I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

Mike Scully

#68. I was born and raised in southern Utah.

Ally Condie

#69. I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.

Richard D. Zanuck

#70. I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.

Jerome Bettis

#71. I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.

Jayne Meadows

#72. I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect ... For after all, they could be my people.

James A. Michener

#73. I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee.

Kristen Johnston

#74. I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.

Willie Nelson

#75. It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to find something that I was more connected to. I used to go back to Tunisia every summer, but I was more into the language, my Arabic roots.

EL Seed

#76. I was born in the Chi fo sho' and raised there till I was like 15. I then went on the road with X [DMX] and then moved to New York. I've moved to L.A. since then. I really have been bouncing around since 15.

Yung Berg

#77. I started my career in Dallas, yes. I was born and raised in Dallas. I started my career there when I was very young. My guitar was bigger than I was. That's how young I was.

Trini Lopez

#78. I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

Olivier Martinez

#79. I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.

Ralph Stanley

#80. I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.

Tamara Tunie

#81. I was born and raised in the South, honey, but I'm no Southern Belle. I shoot what I aim at.

Tonya Burrows

#82. I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.

Corey Reynolds

#83. I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#84. I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.

Sean Hannity

#85. When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

Andrea Bocelli

#86. I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was.

Aisha Tyler

#87. I didn't want to represent any negative side of the country where I was born and raised.

Miyavi

#88. I was born and raised in Maryland and attended the public school system.

Brendan Iribe

#89. I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up reading books from all over.

Hideo Kojima

#90. It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it's Washington, D.C.

Edward P. Jones

#91. I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.

Donald O'Connor

#92. Since I was born and raised in Brazil, the steps to becoming an entrepreneur in the United States have not always been easy.

Mike Krieger

#93. I was born and raised in New York and I'm of an age where I want to just be home. But, you know, when you sign up to be an actor it's like joining the circus and the circus is not always going to be in your hometown.

Dean Winters

#94. I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over the world, but this is the place I come back to and the place where I find it easiest to write.

Michael Scott

#95. I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

James Denton

#96. I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn't know why he was crying.

Penny Marshall

#97. My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.

John Eisenhower

#98. I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

Tessa Thompson

#99. Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.

Maria Conchita Alonso

#100. It was really weird for me filming in New York, because I was born and raised there. I started acting and modeling when I was five or six, so I worked there.

Sunny Mabrey