Quotes About Upbringing

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

I recommend learning how to write a very good thank-you note. A child who can write a nice thank-you note can turn into a cocaine dealer five years later and be remembered as child who wrote nice thank-you notes.

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.

PROVERB: "A tavern can't corrupt a good man, and a synagogue can't reform a bad one.

Everything depends on upbringing.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the

As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.

nature-versus-nurture controversy.

If you are tempted to "teach" your child by guilt, shame, or punishment, you will be creating discouraging beliefs that are difficult to reverse in adulthood.

Her parents took her very seriously; she had trained them, with a combination of treats and punishments, to allow her to do as she pleased and express herself, and to pay attention to her opinions. Thanks

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

I grew up in the unlikely place of Connecticut. The Eastern Woodlands. It was semi-rural where I grew up. I was fascinated by the Piqua and the Mohegan Indians of that area.

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

If I have children, and they were supporters of Madrid, it would be very unlucky, but they would be brought up knowing about Barcelona.

'Crazy Rich Asians' may be fiction, but given the situation I grew up in, I've had an unparalleled view into the very real world it depicts.

When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting.

Trying to find ideas is the hardest part of my job. You'd think it would be the most fun. Just sitting around reading whatever I want, going to cafes and libraries. But I always feel so unproductive. I think I was raised too well by my parents.

My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real.

As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.

I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area.