Neil Cross Quotes

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.

I always, always liked children... I was very afraid of them before. Because I never really grew up, I mean, with a lot of little kids around. Even though I am from a kind of Italian family, I never really grew up with a lot of little kids around.

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8.

I was so fortunate to be raised in a household filled with books and - as you might imagine to be the case in the Bush home - plenty of conversation.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

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.

My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you?

I was the middle of five children, and we were five very opinionated siblings. That probably pushed me to learn to speak up for myself.

I was raised by a single mother.

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to.

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.

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.

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.