Quotes About Upbringing

I'm a cultural Jew, I was raised with it, so I'm still into it, like gefilte fish with kugel.

I grew up with feng shui, but I never saw any jewelry that would give me the energy I needed and also looked good.

I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

I went to a private Jewish school before high school, and a lot of the kids had beautiful homes, but my parents don't really care about those kinds of things.

No one in my family is Jewish; no one was raised as a Jew, me included.

I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.

I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.

But, I enjoy music from lots of people. And you also have to also remember that I grew up in a household where people like Fats Domino, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Earl Scruggs, and so many others were at mama's house. So, I heard everything growing up.

I grew up in the 60s, and before the 60s, my father was into Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, so I heard those records all the time and soaked that up.

I grew up in a joint family.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I grew up in the inner city. It wasn't a joke.

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

When you have a tough childhood, you either cry or make a joke.

Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.

I grew up in Manchester in a big Irish family - there are seven of us in all - so my life has always been about role-playing, about doing anything for a laugh. I'm always joking about; that's the way I am.

nature or nurture' said the professor. 'Whichever way the parents are to blame

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

they raise hell 'cause nobody raised them

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.