Quotes About Upbringing

I come from a family that raised me with good southern values.

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

I grew up Southern Baptist. In the Bible Belt.

Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.

If you were raised in Oklahoma, you've got to be a Southern Baptist or something.

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

I was a Southern California boy raised on rap music and cussed like a sailor.

I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.

I grew up in Somerset in southwest England.

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

I'm from a really little town called Quincy, five hours southwest of Chicago.

I'm just this girl that grew up in southwest Detroit.

I remember my time growing up. It was a little bit difficult because the Soviet Union was broken.

I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.

The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.

books we read, the people with whom we associate, the country and community in which we live, the nature of the work we do, the clothes we wear, the songs we sing, and, most important of all, the religious and intellectual training we receive in our early teenage years.

If his or her upbringing is successful, the young man or woman will have evolved out of that dependency into a self-respecting and self-responsible human being who is able to respond to the challenges of life competently and enthusiastically.

Coopersmith discovered no significant correlations with such factors as family wealth, education, geographic living area, social class, Father's occupation, or always having Mother at home. What he did find to be significant was the quality of the relationship between the child and the important adults in his or her life.

Funny how morality, which always seems so black and white can be influenced so completely by what you were raised to believe.

You may be responsible for your actions," Pastor Dan says, but it's not your fault you weren't emotionally prepared for life out there in the real world. That was my fault—and the fault of everyone who raised you to be a tithe. We're as guilty as the people who pumped that poison into your blood.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.

I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich.

Even though there are a lot of misconceptions about me not being an Indian, I am born and brought up in Bandra.

My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.