I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with…

“CLOUDS SPILLED DOWN FROM THE SKY AND swamped the streets with a hot mist that made the thermometers on the walls perspire. Halfway through”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

— Coolio

I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was raised in…

— Colson Whitehead

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great…

— Barbra Streisand

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

— Barbra Streisand

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country…

— Lou Holtz

I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my…

— Anne Hathaway

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had…

— Jasper Johns

I was raised around the world.

— Sarita Choudhury

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

— Nikki Haley

I've always played hard. That's how I was raised.

— Marcus Smart

I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.

— Dominique Moceanu

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male…

— Alan King

My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a…

— Peter Dinklage

The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.

— Adam F. Goldberg