Quotes About Upbringing

My mum and dad were a little like tiger parents. I hate that, but at the same time, I am a little bit proud.

My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn't get away with much.

But I'm the child of a tiger mom.

I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.

Because I grew up in such tight spaces, I don't get manicures, pedicures. I'm not into cars, but I am into a fabulous house. I wanted the spiral staircase, clean sheets on the bed, to be able to take a shower.

I'm from Pemberton, Wigan, and was born into a poor family. I grew up on a council estate. My dad was at first in the Army and then in the coal mines. My mother had four children by the time she was 23 so money was always tight.

Both my parents were entrepreneurs and built a nice leisure business. But money was tight when I was growing up.

Mum was a disciplinarian. Raising a child on your own forces you to have to keep the boundaries tight.

A child is like an unruly tree—in order to grow up straight, he must be pruned. 'Raise up a child in the way he should go, and he will not depart from it.'" I

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

The practical outcome of the foregoing was a conviction in Theobald's mind, and if in his, then in Christina's, that it was their duty to begin training up their children in the way they should go, even from their earliest infancy. The first signs of self-will must be carefully looked for, and plucked up by the roots at once before they had time to grow. Theobald

Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.

My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

I was middle class and fucked up and spoilt.

People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and Ive 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.

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.