Quotes About Upbringing

I've always been interested in Catholic iconography. My dad's from Naples and I was brought up in a Roman Catholic school.

I am Neapolitan and Naples are the team from where I grew up.

I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports.

I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation.

I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort of proud of the fact that I kind of keep myself in check, probably because I have awesome parents.

I'm naturally guarded because of the way I was brought up. But I understand people are interested in who I am.

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

Now, Raven." "Don't you now-Raven me. That brother of yours, worm that he is, male chauvinist unequaled in modern times, told you something he didn't tell me, didn't he?" Leaning back with studied casualness, Jacques tipped his chair to a precarious angle and raised an eyebrow. "Women have vivid imaginations. I think you have a suspicious nature due to your American upbringing.

Los logros de los hijos son una muestra de la educación que recibieron de sus padres.

Eragon's rearing—limited as it was by Garrow's scant tutelage—had exposed him only to the knowledge needed to run a farm.

As the poet Philip Larkin famously said, 'They fuck you up, your mum and dad.' Sometimes, it only takes one of them.

To shape the soul of a young girl, all the nuns in the world are not equal to one mother.

A dad... he teaches responsibility and accountability, but a mom... ah, a mom teaches her child to dream, to reach for the stars and to believe in fairy tales.

our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we've lived before they came along.

You do honor her—and me—every day by being the kind of person we raised you to be.

Of course, the ways we carry dysfunction through our family lineage are not so funny. To break the chain, I must pause to ask myself: What dysfunctional behaviors do I practice by habits that come from my own subconscious psychological patterning because of my upbringing? Emotional patterns and ways of being are handed down from generation to generation like family heirlooms—and while many may be positive, many can also be oppressive.

Joe Willie was a perfect child," Marjorie Simpson said. "We never had any trouble with him.

Can we mothers of boys hope to raise thoughtful, supportive, caring helpmates for the female achievers of tomorrow? Or are they, at age 5, or at birth, already too far gone? Where did those guys come upon their obsession with wiggling and wheels and weapons, their passion for He-Man and hockey?

But… if they'd been embraced instead, and raised with love," he said, "they wouldn't have become tormentors.

I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-

You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.

And you love Sophie." Gideon's mouth tensed. "She's a mundane and a servant," said Gabriel. "I don't know what you expect to come of it, Gideon." "Nothing," Gideon said roughly. "I expect nothing. But the fact that you believe I should shows that our family brought us up to believe that we should do right only if some reward was the result.

I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.