Quotes About Upbringing

We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat.

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was considered the worthiest thing you could try to do.

I was tossed all over the place growing up, which I guess prepared me for the music business, but the one thing that has always been there, that has never ever left me, has been country music.

I didn't go to university; I hardly went to school, but I grew up among people well versed in Henry James and Proust, and just felt this endless, total inadequacy.

We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time.

I grew up in a total Pink Floyd house.

I grew up in a bit of a feminist fantasy with a single mom. I was totally shielded, in a way, from an idea that I couldn't do something.

Yes, our genes, upbringing, and difficulties affect us, but I do not believe they determine us.

Todos tivemos pais, e nem sempre fomos bons filhos, muitos de nós.

No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.

No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas!

I didn't raise you I be good and weak. I raised you to be powerful and happy.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

People have too many theories about raising children. I believe simply in love, security, and discipline.

When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8, 000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.