Unique Upbringing Quotes

I had an extraordinary childhood.

In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.

I grew up in a kung fu house. It wasn't until I got older that I discovered that most families didn't talk about the Shaolin Temple or Jackie Chan at the dinner table.

You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a hive, herd or anthill.

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

I definitely grew up differently to most of my friends, and that was a little bit of a struggle then. I wouldn't want to change anything about the way I grew up, even though it was a different situation. I still love the way I grew up, and I had an amazing childhood with a really supportive family.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

I do have a somewhat unique upbringing.

The way other kids would watch 'The Little Mermaid' or 'Sesame Street,' I would watch 'Fiddler on the Roof.'

I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream.

"The Wolfpack" is a real life clash of life and fiction and the saving power of brotherhood and make-believe.

My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like.

I never heard my mom say, "Not now, I'm busy." But I did have extraordinary experiences that I'm very aware were extraordinary. I mean, I traveled Europe before I was 12 years old, had been to the White House numerous times. Andy Warhol photographed me; Michael Jackson called our house.

I think that I just wasn't brought up under any rules, and I think that made me a little different and people wanted to look up to that or aspire to that, and that makes me very grateful.

The whole band is from Alaska. It's like growing up anywhere else.

All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.

You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.

I definitely feel like I had a different upbringing to a lot of other people, but not in a bad - or good - way.

I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time.

I ended up being exposed to cinema that a lot of other kids wouldn't have been exposed to.

I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

I think my parents gave me a unique name and I have created this unique lifestyle that makes me who I am; it's a cool way of living.

I had a nice childhood, even though I grew up in hotels.