Quotes About Upbringing

I was brought up in Glasgow, and I was a big Celtic follower.

Growing up in Stockton wasn't all doom and gloom.

I grew up with go-go music. We wasn't really hip-hop fans.

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

Dad was certainly a free spirit and had his own ways. He was very proud of my golf achievements but more proud of the person I've turned into. He brought me up to lead a very balanced life.

They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good.

When you are bringing up your kids, you hope you have given them some sense of right and wrong, a sense of good and bad.

I came from a good family and a nice area, but I went to a rough state school.

I was lucky enough to be raised not only by a really talented man but a really good father.

I'm from South Georgia, so my mom, she always cooked some dang good food when I was growing up.

I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.

I never had a father, really. My great-grandmother raised me. But I was in this country where I got help from people that were not of my same color. So when I come out of the box, I don't come out of the box as racial. I look for good people, and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings.

I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?

What Lisa and I want is for our kids to grow up to be good people.

My dad brought me up to be a good person.

Growing up a good person, it's a lot harder than you'd think.

I am trying to be a good person every day and do what my parents teach me when I was a kid.

Our parents gave us a certain amount of freedom, and we had a really good time. We've brought up our children in vaguely the same way.

My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.

I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.

Whenever a child is given to parents, a crown is made for it in Heaven; and woe to those parents if that child is not reared with a sense of responsibility to acquire that crown!

curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally. Mother rarely insisted I do anything. Father

When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs. When they asked me, 'Where did you summer and winter growing up?' I would usually say, 'As a child? The same place I springed and autumned.'

When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.