Quotes About Upbringing

My father had a hotel, and people in show business used to stay there. He loved peformers and entertainment, and I grew up knowing that.

I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived in Hong Kong and America.

My grandmother raised me when I was little. I was born here, and my parents are immigrants; they needed someone to help take care of me because they were working a lot, so my grandmother came from Korea. So I'm very close with my grandmother, and I keep in touch with her a lot.

I grew up in so much church: English-speaking church, Korean church.

My musical influences growing up were limited to Korean folk songs and hymns as I went to a Christian boarding school where I was not allowed to listen to secular music.

I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.

My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.

How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?

Mom raised me better, I want that noted for posterity's sake: Rainey Lane is a fine, upstanding woman.

I think we become good parents by either copying what our parents did or doing the opposite. The trick is in deciding which way you want to go.

A man who has grown up in an orphanage cannot take a dog to the pound. Even if it is a Chihuahua.

You dumb asshole," Ross said to Nate."You could be a freakin' amoeba and you'd still be a brother. And the only reason I'm not throwing a punch right now is because you had such a dipshit upbringing you don't get that.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

it annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing.

finding someone who is similar in upbringing, general orientation, and values is the single most important component of a long and satisfying marriage.

Vera Vladimirovna was, as we have seen, very proud of her daughter's successful upbringing, especially perhaps because it had been accomplished not without difficulty, because it took time and skill to destroy in her soul its innate thirst for delight and enthusiasm.

He'd once explained that when he was a boy his very proper parents had forbidden him and his brothers to curse in the house so 'feather buckets' was the young boys coded way of saying 'f*ck it

My father confused me about what it meant to become a man. From an early age, I knew I didn't want to be anything like the man he was. PAT CONROY, My Reading Life

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

My mom is painfully sweet she's from Nebraska.

Maya knows that her mother left her in Island Books. But maybe that's what happens to all children at a certain age. Some children are left in shoe stores. And some children are left in toy stores. And some children are left in sandwich shops. And your whole life is determined by what store you get left in. She does not want to live in the sandwich shop.

But because he had been mostly raised in Asia, he had been completely sheltered from the kind of racism that Asians experienced in America.