Quotes About Upbringing

Growing up was very interesting for me. If you were Haitian, people just automatically assumed that English was a second language. So they had a special class for my brother and I, but we spoke proper English.

My mom was real loud and that made me speak only when spoken to. But even as a child, if you challenged me, you would get both barrels.

My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother.

My parents both worked full-time flipping burgers at the local fast-food joint, and my grandmother looked after us. English was her second language, so instead of books, I learned spoken French nursery rhymes and curse words.

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

As the family goes, so go the children.

I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.

I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.

I grew up in this medical atmosphere, and thought I wanted to be a doctor. I was a hippie, didn't have a lot of goals.

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Men are what their mothers made them.

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

Huh, yeah,' Johnny says. 'My mom was always complimenting me, and look how I turned out.

Let's recognize that success in life is a reflection not only of enterprise and willpower but also of chance and early upbringing, and that compassion isn't a sign of weakness but a mark of civilization.

Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do with who makes them one night in the bedroom or the experience of being pregnant

I knew that my dad was a good man, a kind man, and though he'd led a wounded life, he'd done the best he could in raising me. Never once had he raised his hand in anger

Being raised, I think, in a household where your parents really taught you never to let people see you sweatin' - that's the motto I live by.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

I grew up in Oldham and moved to Manchester and London. I didn't go to drama school. I just did a B-Tech.

The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.