Adebayo Akinfenwa
Adebayo Akinfenwa

I was raised on an estate in an inner city school where people had a go about my size, people saying I am too big to play football - which still happens today - and I used that to inspire me.

Adhir Kalyan
Adhir Kalyan

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

Adina Porter
Adina Porter

My father was born and raised in Sierra Leone, and my mom was from Bermuda.

Adrian Younge
Adrian Younge

I was really raised on hip-hop, and hip-hop introduced me basically to all the music I listen to now.

Adrienne C. Moore
Adrienne C. Moore

I was raised in a very religious household - it wasn't dogma, but we were raised Christian; we went to church every Sunday, Bible study, Bible camp every summer.

Adrienne C. Moore
Adrienne C. Moore

I grew up in Nashville, born and raised. I'm a country girl, and I love country music. I had a dream I was going to be the first black female country music star, but then that wasn't the case.

Adrienne C. Moore
Adrienne C. Moore

I'm a girl from the South, so I was raised with morals - you know, your family's first.

Agnes Varda
Agnes Varda

I was not raised with films. And when Alain Resnais did the editing on my first film, he said, 'You should go to the Cinematheque.' I didn't even know we had one in Paris.

Ahmet Zappa
Ahmet Zappa

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Aida Turturro
Aida Turturro

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