Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.

My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.

I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life and faith-affirming media.

I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

The advantages of being raised on the right side of the tracks are too implicit to be enumerated. It is the few who have escaped who grasp the full impotence of those they have left behind. After

A baby that grows in the lap of Muslim parents; but appears unfair and dishonest; conversely, a baby that grows in the lap of non-Muslim parents and becomes fair and honest; sure, I will salute and respect the fair and honest one.

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

His wealth, his upbringing, his reputation, well known among the students, as a young militant on the left, his sociability, even his courage when he delivered carefully measured speeches against powerful people within and outside the university—all this had given him an aura that automatically extended to me, as his fiancée or girlfriend or companion, as if the pure and simple fact that he loved me were the public sanctioning of my talents.

Det var slutet för den unge, så gick Kullervo ur tiden, denne olycksfödde yngling, för att aldrig återkomma. /.../ Eftervärld, låt aldrig barnet uppfostras av onda viljor, vyssjas av förvända mänskor, vaggas fel av obekanta. Den som en gång fostrats galet, vyssjas bakvänt, vaggas illa, han blir aldrig som han borde,

Beautiful people lived in a different world, had different relations with people. From the beginning they were raised for love.

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

Thirdly, we have to raise human beings with a philosophy of ethics. If it's Judaism, wonderful, because it has a basic ethic. If it's Christianity, it has a basic ethic. But we have to raise people with a conscience.

A child who is very close to own father is likely to grow up as a better person for the nation and the world than a kid who is too close to own mother.

The loan taken by celeb parents to lead a lavish & luxurious lifestyle has to be paid in installments by their child by ignorantly working through his days of kindergarten.

A child's conduct will reflect the ways of his parents.

You can take a boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of a boy.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

My dad was Quaker and a businessman.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

My parents were Quaker, and they were part of that old self-improving working class.