Quotes About Upbringing

Males raised and nurtured on mama's 'love' resent the need that they have for women.

I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.

I was raised in a normal Gujarati style with all the restrictions and reservations.

I believe in being able to reserve things to yourself. That's the way I was brought up.

I grew up in a humble family with a shy personality.

I do not understand why we are not raised to celebrate our bodies as children. Why we are told to be shy or awkward or self-conscious.

I grew up Catholic, and I am a pretty shy person.

I think a lot of my shyness and non-athleticism came because I didn't have a father to instill those in me.

I'm an only child, so I don't really have any siblings to drive me nuts.

I was an only child but I never longed for a sibling. It just didn't occur to me.

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

I don't have siblings, which is probably the biggest reason why my parents were able to give the attention to my career that they did.

I was the middle of five children, and we were five very opinionated siblings. That probably pushed me to learn to speak up for myself.

I was lucky because I had parents who have enabled me to do whatever I was passionate about and never held my siblings and me back from anything. But I think a lot of people don't have that experience.

My sister took me as her own. My mum had a lot of help raising me. That's what happens in large families: your siblings raise you.

My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

Many models I knew had come from broken families. That makes a significant difference in the way you handle yourself and the choices you make.

I came from a working class family. We lived in a prefab. We had nothing, but we had everything. I was out of the house at 12 to live with my grandmother, who was on her own, and I was expected to be the man about the house. At 15, I was living in digs in London after signing for Tottenham.

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family.

I wasn't a girl who grew up wearing dresses, but I was always attracted to fabric. When we'd go to a shop, the fabric I'd pick was always the most expensive. It was always the silk or cashmere. It was something in me, that desire to choose quality. It's the same now.

I grew up in what my mom will always dispute as 'the hood.' She just doesn't like the name. But it had its similarities to any neighborhood like that. The all-black neighbors and the all-black problems and the all-black happiness. And I really loved it.