Quotes About Upbringing

My decision to go to Duke wasn't a surprise to people who really knew me because I was always a Duke fan growing up.

My mum is incredibly leftwing, and my dad was quite rightwing - no surprise they didn't stay together - and so I had two very conflicting political opinions as a child, neither of which I was interested in taking any notice of, being a sort of little reprobate.

Obviously when you grow up in the area you love playing on the street, and to go from playing on the street with my mates to playing at Upton Park is a bit surreal, and 15 years on to still be in the heart of the West Ham midfield is quite good going!

I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism.

Had I a thousand daughters, by Heaven! I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet!

If you are religious at all it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false, knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan, you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.

Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.

Isn't it remarkable that almost every child follows the same religion as their parents, and it always just happens to be the right religion!

A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents. Seize every opportunity to ram it home.

That is not a Muslim child, but a child of Muslim parents. That child is too young to know whether it is a Muslim or not. There is no such thing as a Muslim child. There is no such thing as a Christian child.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

People growing up in different countries copy their parents and believe in the god or gods of their own country. These beliefs contradict each other, so they can't all be right.

There are so many different faiths. How do you know the holy book you have been brought up with is the true one? And if all the others are wrong, what makes you think your holy book isn't wrong too?

Don't let what your parents do disappoint you.

Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens -- but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.

We live as if nature and nurture were equal parents when the evidence suggests that nature has both the whip hand and the whip.

Teinosuke preferred not to be too deeply involved in domestic problems, and particularly with regard to Etsuko's upbringing he was of the view that matters might best be left to his wife. Lately, however, with the outbreak of the China Incident, he had become conscious of the need to train strong, reliant women, women able to support the man behind the gun.

Was there some fault in English fathers and mothers of the rich and famous?

Then again, he was born in the South, where babies drank Scripture with their mother's milk. "I

The materialist doctrine concerning the changing of circumstances and upbringing forgets that circumstances are changed by men and that it is essential to educate the educator himself. This doctrine must, therefore, divide society into two parts, one of which is superior to society. The coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity or self-changing can be conceived and rationally understood only as revolutionary practice. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.

Man is a child of his environment

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.