Quotes About Upbringing

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

Queenie was devoted to careless name-dropping, scattering the details of her privileged upbringing without the faintest hint of modesty or embarrassment (though, after a while Maddie began to realize she only did it with people she liked or people she detested--those who didn't mind and those she didn't care about--anyone in between, or who might have been offended, she was more cautious with).

is managed can have an enormous impact on the way a child feels about herself and about the world.

A psychologist would probably say that, as a kid, I was trying to create a sense of order in a chaotic life, with my dad coming and going and all the reprimands and rows. I didn't have control over that, or over my mother's moods, but I had control over the stuff in my room. Objects couldn't do me any harm. I found them comforting. I talked to them, I behaved as if they had feelings. If something got broken, I'd feel really upset, as if I'd killed something.

We're very comfortable thinking, good parenting in, good children out.

Upbringing, education and environment are influential on one's personality i.e. they do play essential role in building up one's/your personality. So, never take them for granted.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

There was a candor about him I noticed in people whose parents had given them something unconditional and absolute growing up.

My body knows not to respond to fake love. I guess maybe that's what it means to have been brought up well. Mom

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

I have often wondered whether it is really a good thing to be honest by nature and upbringing; certainly it is not a good thing socially, for I feel sure that the tea-party would have been more successful had I not explained that the tea was really Indian which I had unfortunately made too weak.

Growing up in a military family perhaps cultivates a certain kind of imagination that makes it easier to engage in the subject of war.

And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.

I'm not sure which is worse--being born to it or learning it.

Citizens are not born, but made.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality.

I always remember my mum and dad arguing a lot and one main reason was lack of money. I realized very young that I always wanted to make money so I'd never have the same arguments like my mum and dad.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

We didn't have much money growing up and charity shops were the most reasonable option, I think. But my mum's always recycled, reused, restored and repaired.

Good parents, who are able to maintain the affection and respect of their children and whose offspring admire them and value their good opinion, can be reasonably certain that their values and ways of socialized behaving will be adopted by the next generation.

Mumford & Sons have really opened up everyone's ears to music with instruments again, acoustic-based music... it's reassuring for people like me who have been brought up on acoustic guitar.

I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.

I had hippie parents, and I found it difficult to figure out how to rebel against them.