Quotes About Upbringing

As for snobbery, the intellectual raises himself above ordinary folk -- who still cling quixotically to standards, prejudices, and taboos -- by his thorough rejection of them. Unlike others, he is not a prisoner of his upbringing and cultural inheritance; and thus he proves the freedom of his spirit by the amorality of his conceptions.

To educate a man in mind, and not morals is to educate a menace to society.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Father is strength at home, strength in government and strength overseas. Mother represents upbringing, education, the spread of civilization. Children are the lower classes, the lower races, to be brought to maturity and then set free

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

England is still a place where a naughty boy who comes from nothing can live his dream.

I grew up in Wicklow, near Roundwood. It's a beautiful place on the east coast. That's where I started riding bikes.

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.

I was born at Rotten Row in Glasgow and brought up in Loch Lomond near a small place called Gartocharn. And it's a bit like anyone: where you're brought up, you have an irresistible attraction to that place; it defines who you are.

I grew up in Bristol, R.I. I had grandparents and great-grandparents nearby, and because I was the only grandchild until I was 12, I was the center of a lot of adult attention.

I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.

I was born in Japan, and then we went to Korea, and I was raised in Nebraska.

I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

I would tell little Zavion Davenport that it doesn't matter where you're from and how you grew up, the neighborhood you grew up in.

I was raised in a desegregated neighborhood.

I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood.

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.