Quotes About Upbringing

All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.

We have taught our children that meanness gets you nowhere in life.

When I left school - or, rather, when I was expelled from school for hitting a kid who had disrespected a teacher - I had nothing, with nowhere to go. Where I'm from, it really means that. Now my family are millionaires. I never dreamed this would be possible.

I was the black atheist kid in the all-white Catholic school run by nuns.

My mom dragged me by my ear to Catholic school because I was a cutup and thought I needed to see the nuns.

My dad was the 10th of 11 children. My mother has three brothers. My dad was a salesman, my mum was a school nurse.

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

I do believe that nurture has a great deal to do with how you end up as a human being.

My father is a big believer in nature over nurture.

There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable.

I was twice-born. I'm Mexican by nature and Hungarian by nurture.

We're all a result of our early years and our nature and nurture.

It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

People have to understand how important it is for kids to be nurtured by their mom and dad and get the great role modeling when they are young.

Being from California, my parents are very eco-friendly and I feel like I've been nurtured by a tree-hugger family in a way.

I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

The trash-talking, I think I would like to take that back. I really didn't want to get known as that, but that was just the way I was, the way I grew up back in Oakland, Calif., back on the playgrounds.

I was raised with a sense of duty, obedience and guilt.

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

I was raised in, and presumably to, the cutlery business. I really didn't think that that's what I wanted to do for a career. But I felt a certain obligation to give it a try.

Personally, I was oblivious to any financial hardships that my parents endured.