Quotes About Upbringing

No matter what the situation you're in, if you're raised in a loving environment, that's the most important thing.

I always knew I wanted a family because of the way I grew up. Family has always been the most important thing.

I come from a family who didn't have much money but raised me to believe that money wasn't the most important thing in the world. We had enough; we were happy.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.

Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.

My mother and father have always drilled in to me that work is very important.

My mother and father were lovely parents, always quite hard up, but very hard-working.

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

I have always joked that I have three mothers. I couldn't get away with anything as a kid. Whether I got a bad mark or was told off, it would always end up getting back to my parents.

Most people's problems start as children when their parents, especially mothers, cause them to become angry.

You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up.

I don't think any of us would be who we are if our parents weren't who they were. People that are in show business, and their parents are not in show business, their parents probably motivated them to get in show business.

I never cared about money because I never needed money, you know what I mean? When I was 12 to 17 I never saw any of the money, so the money never motivated me.

It was a blast growing up in a house where you have motivating parents, and my mom would always challenge me no matter what it was.

I grew up with nothing, and that was my motivation.

Biggest motivator, I would probably say my mom, how she takes care of seven kids by herself and how she raised us. She always an inspiration to us.

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.

I think my parents are the first influence on me music-wise. My dad was into Motown and soul, and my mom was into British '80s pop, like The Trashcan Sinatras. I grew up on that. It was great. They were the first people to really bring music into my life.

I grew up in a jazz household. They made me listen to jazz before I could hear my Motown.

My folks had a lot of Motown records, so that was a kind of an early inspiration. I grew up on the radio really.

A desire for recognition emerges at the same time as a sense of inferiority. A good upbringing should be able to dissolve this sense of inferiority, and as a result the child will not develop an unbalanced need to win at the expense of others.

This book is a song for my fathers—the white one who sired, raised, and coached me, and the black ones who inspired and encouraged me, and enriched my life beyond measure. It also recounts the life and times of a middle-class white boy growing up in New Orleans in the 1950s and '60s. New Orleans is more than a backdrop to this drama; it is perhaps the central player, for this story could not have taken place in any other city in the world. The