Quotes About Upbringing

I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They were very sweet to me.

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

Undoubtedly, the biggest influence on my life is my mom, followed pretty closely by my dad.

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

I grew up as a Roman Catholic, and as a very young boy I felt the presence of divinity in my life through the experiences that I had in connection with the Catholic church.

I've had a nontabloid life because I had a really good family.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

There's never been a parent in my life.

Our children are the cement of life, its up to us to make the foundation of the future!

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.

I don't want to blame it on not having a father figure in my life, but that has a lot to do with it too.

From when I was born, my dad would dance with me in his arms, and I would watch my siblings dancing around in the living room. I just grew up with that. That was just my life.

I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life. So you develop the sports-mouth with all of your friends.

We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.

I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

He had led a sheltered childhood and never learned to swear convincingly. He had long ago learned that swearing, like foreign languages, is best learned at an early age, but because he regarded it as a social grace he never gave up trying to master it.

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education

Hollis was raised by Tom Shaw; she can start a fire with a pile of dry leaves and a dirty look.