Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.

I was born in Delhi but grew up in Chandigarh, so I write about the machismo of Punjab because it was around me.

I have three brothers and one sister, and I'm the third child. Sometimes people say, 'It's only natural you would become a writer - your parents were English professors.' But my four siblings were brought up in the exact same household, and no one else became a writer or an English professor.

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.

As is said about most writers, on the one hand, all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. On the other hand, the more I read, the more I felt this well-known fissure between me and the world.

My mum is a singer and harpist, and my dad writes fantastic poetry, so we've grown up around a lot of words and music.

She wondered, faintly, if it was immoral to raise children in the habit of hope. Was it not, in the end, all the harder for them to adjust to the reality of how the world worked?

He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application

Without parents who had time for her, at an early age she had made herself self-sufficient.

Scratch a guy who always talks about what a winner he is or how he's "self-made" or how he's pulled himself up by the bootstraps, and underneath you'll always find a little boy who had everything handed to him.

I was a sharecropper's son. That's as low as you can get on the totem pole.

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

My mom was tough.

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

My background has made me the person I am today. It's made me a mentally and physically tough guy.

My father passed away when I was seven, mom single-handedly brought up my brother Rahul and me. She was a civil surgeon posted in rural areas. We went through some tough times but she gave us a beautiful life.

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

I always think the best players come from the areas where there are loads of chimney pots, where they have been brought up a little bit tougher than the others.

You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.

I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see 'Tommy' when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.