Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up in Carol City, Zone 3, for 19 years, in a house with four brothers, a mother and a father.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.

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

There are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water.

The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

I would never have told my father a lie. We were brought up to be very truthful. I would never lie today. It's impossible.

Born of a noble father and a saintly mother, President Hinckley learned as a young boy the truths of the restored gospel from his faithful parents. He came to respect deeply and value highly his pioneer heritage.

I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu.

I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.

I'm not trying to be anything other than the way I was born and raised.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

My dad was born in Haiti, and my mom was born in Tunisia. She is the daughter of a white French woman and a black, half-Guadeloupian, half-American man. My mom traveled the world a lot. She went through Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. She just got to experience a lot of different cultures, and that came through my childhood.

My mom had a produce business in in Oxnard, and we used to take these long trips to talk to farmers and different distributors. She'd take us with her after picking us up from school, and she'd be blasting all this old soul music and R&B. I knew all those O'Jays songs before I knew Snoop or Dre or Tupac.

My dad did not play Biggie or Tupac, so I had never heard it.

Before I got signed to Bad Boy, I grew up listening to Snoop and Tupac and my hood was all Tupac driven.

When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.

My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.

My parents came from little, so they made a choice to give a lot: buying turkeys for homeless shelters at Thanksgiving, delivering meals to people in hospices, giving spare change to those asking for it.

I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.