Quotes About Upbringing

It now seems obvious that the way we're raised has a major impact on what kind of person we turn out to be, but so does who we love.

if I had been raised in a critical or demanding environment, it might have been easier for me, relatively speaking, to find refuge in worse-than or need-to-be-seen-as justifications. Those who were raised in affluent or sanctimonious environments, on the other hand, may naturally gravitate to better-than and I-deserve justifications, and so on. Need-to-be-seen-as boxes might easily arise in such circumstances as well.

All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.

I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.

I have a joyful life, and I attribute that to both of my parents.

A lot of people judge me because I like to, you know, look good, but I grew up in fashion.

I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But you were also being heavily judged by people that wanted to look down on you for not being as great as they are.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

I grew up in a small, old-school Catholic world, imprinted with an above-average number of categories and judgments.

I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.

I grew up all over the South. My dad just kind of followed construction.

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

Going to church and stuff was just something I did with my mom.

I grew up in a household where we watched a lot of comedy. It's just something I've always enjoyed.

Yeah, I didn't ever think about music as a career. Like, it was never - it's just something like an extracurricular activity that my mom put me in. And as every South Asian, you know, like, child, I was like - oh, OK, I can do medicine.

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

I come from Kansas; we're steak-and-potato boys. I grew up on meat.

I listened to R. Kelly growing up.

I grew up in Malden. Genetically, I was born to be as close to Kelly's Roast Beef as possible.

I grew up on Jodeci and R. Kelly.

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.

I grew up in Murray, Kentucky. My wife is from there, also.

Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.