Quotes About Upbringing

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I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

Clade upbringings fuck you up on so many levels, when you finally let the oppressive rightminding go and try to exist as an independent human being with things like judgment and will.

The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction.

I grew up in a Navy family.

Instead of raising children who turn out okay despite their childhood, let's raise children who turn out extraordinary because of their childhood.

They had grown up on shame; it was the nutrient of their soil.

Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic—you were made to feel guilty about everything.

I have never fully understood the whole class business in America, though, because I came from the very bottom of it, and when that happens it never really leaves you. I mean I have never really gotten over it, my beginnings, the poverty, I guess is what I mean.

But with my mother I didn't dare cry. Both my parents loathed the act of crying, and it's difficult for a child who is crying to have to stop, knowing if she doesn't stop everything will be made worse. This is not an easy position for any child.

Nurture, not nature, explained human behavior and institutions.

I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.

Family! Our families determine who we are, determine who we're not. All our relationships with everybody we ever meet for the rest of our lives is based on the way we relate to the members of our family. No wonder the world's so fucked up.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.

Such is the tragedy of girls and women who by the strictures of their upbringing and culture cannot own up to their body's desires, even to themselves.

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

Religion of your upbringing is like a cloak -- you must know how it is made in order to take it off.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

Highbridge - everybody rap in Highbridge; everyone grew up rappin' or playing basketball.

My mom was a rapper and she really shaped me as a woman, and the music that she was letting me listen to as a child really pushed me in the direction that I'm going in right now.

I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.