Quotes About Upbringing

It's always been important for me to do things in the community, it's part of my upbringing.

I can't change myself for others as my upbringing has taught me to be nice and cordial with people around me.

My upbringing wasn't overly comfortable.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.

I still follow the lifestyle of the Mormon church. I try to go to church every Sunday even when I'm on tour. It's not only my upbringing, but it helps me stay sane. It helps me remember my purpose and the overall picture of what is important to me and what makes me happy.

We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.

My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.

My father was the nurturing one, the one who always made sure my sister and I ate properly and that our hair was brushed... He really took care of the logistics of our upbringing.

If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.

I had to train myself to like spicy foods as I got older because they weren't a part of my upbringing at all.

When I started soul-searching, I tapped into the old me and what I grew up around. I learned a lot about myself, and it really made me appreciate my upbringing.

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.

Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.

My father was Catholic, my mom Baptist, so we were raised Baptist but had a lot of Catholic upbringing: fish on Fridays, no birth control.

Fighting comes down to who you are as a person. With B.J. Penn, he has no problems, not a hard upbringing and came up with money or whatever and he's just a fighter, he enjoys the fight and he refined his skills so I don't think it necessarily has to be a rough upbringing for guys to be great fighters.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

I had a very modest upbringing.

I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.