I was raised on NBC television.

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

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I won't be getting out of line anytime soon.

— Alexa Vega

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

— Powers Boothe

I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and watch her father…

— Julie White

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally.

— Joan Didion

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 mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started laughing back at her, then your spankings were…

— Doug Harvey