Quotes About Upbringing

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.

We have been in the process of reprogramming men and the way they are raised for a long time.

If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.

I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always been expressive.

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.

Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.

I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.

I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.

A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to be a missionary, and goes to the innocent savage and to the civilized Japanese, and soils their minds. Whereupon they adopt immodesty, they conceal their bodies, they stop bathing naked together.

best parents are poor people who have a little bit of money and rich people who have had a little bit of poverty.

I admired Grenville's ability to brush aside bad encounters and continue serenely with his day, as though no one could possibly upset him. Perhaps he was practiced because he'd been raised to it, but I'd never learned the art of it, and doubted I ever would.

Self-preservation starts very early in West Indian families.