Quotes About Upbringing

I have always had a deep connection with my faith, and I was fortunate to have been brought up in a Christian environment. My faith is a very important part of who I am.

We were raised as Christians, and religion plays an important role for us.

One of the most important things to do is to raise our kids in a respectful way with both genders.

Like any doting parent, I believe the most important work we do is the way we bring up our children.

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.

Religion wasn't imposed on me.

I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.

Throughout my boyhood my father impressed upon me the value of money.

I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

I grew up in a house where language was appreciated and cared about. I'm sure that, although I wasn't aware of it at the time, it must have made an impression on me.

In the past, I never gave money to my children when they were young in return for nothing. When one of them approached me to give them cash, I asked them to do some work in exchange for it.

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent.

My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.

My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up.

When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.

Being from a middle-class Indian family, I learned Carnatic music.

That's what interested me: their characters. I wanted to know what they had acquired from the world around them and how their formative experiences found expression in a dimly lighted basement in Glen Ridge. What was it in their upbringing as children and adolescents, so seemingly comfortable and secure, that inclined them to take pleasure in the conscious degradation of a helpless woman?

How could this happen in a beautiful place like Glen Ridge? What made a bunch of friendly, likeable boys, boys from fine families, boys with every imaginable advantage, do such a thing?