Quotes About Upbringing

When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.

I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.

I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.

My parents didn't exercise, so it was not something I saw was good for you or fun. I wish I had grown up knowing to do that.

I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.

Not everybody grows up the same. Everybody is exposed to different things growing up.

It was my grandmother who raised me and guided me.

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.

I sometimes joke that I'm half Jewish, because I was raised Catholic... and we share 'the guilt.'

I grew up Catholic, so I feel guilty about everything.

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.

My brother and I used to laugh and say, 'Normal kids went to day care, and we went to the gym.'

As a kid, I didn't have a shower at home, and I was used to taking bucket baths, so I went back to that old habit.

I think it would've been a little easier if I grew up in America; they've got better conditions for basketball players. At the same time, many people have said to me that having to start playing so late helped me not pick up bad habits.

When we decide to bring a child to this world, as a parent, it becomes a responsibility to build a good healthy body by inculcating some of the good habits in the child.

Where I grew up, we had enough to get by, and we had a lot of love. That took me a long way.

As I hail from a conservative family, watching films was never encouraged in our house.

It was great growing up with my dad as a hairdresser - you get free haircuts! We always had amazing shampoos, too, but I knew it wasn't my thing. I get too lazy to use them.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

I'm a girl from East Ham.

We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.

My parents may have given me negative or mixed messages about my worth, but my spouse knows me as an adult and loves me. Her love builds my self-esteem. The

your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character.

I know this kind of girl," Grace was saying. "It's the worst kind of combination of abuse and privilege, and growing up in this, like, greenhorn southern-Californian Asian upper-middle-class ghetto, where everyone is so shallow and money-craven.