Quotes About Upbringing

Man. I've been through a lot as a kid. But at the same time that upbringing just made me stronger and made me more determined to make it out of where I made it out from and just fight extra hard to not go back.

I grew up as a Muslim: it was quite a conservative upbringing; I didn't wear mini-skirts. But my mum and dad had a good sense of humour and were creative. I guess all of that shaped me.

It wasn't rich, it was hard-working, but I give thanks daily for the kind of upbringing I had, and for the values my parents brought to their own relationship and to their children. They wanted my brother and me to find out what we were best at and make the most of it.

Well of course, when you have kids, you become more protective and you think about how to give them the healthiest upbringing and the best future.

It's the upbringing at home. You can have education abroad, the best of things, but you can be a horrible human being.

I had a very humble upbringing, earned everything I got, and learned how challenging it is in the pro wrestling business.

I think growing up, the assimilation of most cultural conventions typically encouraged by a heightened awareness of gender and sex encourages a sort of separation of the self. What's so special about 'Hanna' is that her upbringing has negated this indoctrination; she's almost absolved of the pressures of gender or gender itself.

There was a stage when I was a little embarrassed about my Asian upbringing.

If you know that you've given the right upbringing and knowledge to your children, you have already won half the battle.

I've been very lucky - I don't come from a privileged upbringing.

My mother was a Muslim and dad a Hindu. I got the best upbringing that anyone could. Never did I see any angst in my family owing to that: each practiced their own religion. My existence is the harmony that these two communities can achieve if they try.

I had quite a turbulent upbringing. It was middle class, and everything was quite comfortable, but everyone was mental.

I've had an incredible upbringing, but it was quite chaotic.

I had a really lovely upbringing. I did a lot of skateboarding down country lanes.

It's never occurred to me - and I don't know what right mixture of upbringing this was - that my opinion wasn't as important as the alpha males or that I shouldn't try or that I wasn't the funniest one in the room.

I had a good upbringing.

I think my feet were on the ground, and I had good family around me. It comes down to who you are and your upbringing.

Growing up as a kid, I played for Wallsend Boys Club, a famous boys club. I had such a good childhood and upbringing there.

Theater actually took time to pique my interest. It just wasn't a part of my upbringing. I don't have anyone in the arts in my family. I wasn't brought up particularly cultured. It was always TV and film for me.

Actually, competitiveness was never part of our upbringing.

You see, for the most part it was a normal upbringing. Sure, there was the Nobel Peace award; sure, there were people coming to our house who I knew were famous. But we grew up in a very modest part of the community. Our last home was in what had been one of the worst ghettos in Atlanta.

My parents were on the road a lot in the 1970s. Winifred Kelly, a nurse from the hospital where I was born, was hired to care for me. Her love and discipline had a big influence on my upbringing.

I don't want to keep talking about my upbringing because people always resort to the past and what happened when I was younger.

For me socialism has never been an intellectual pursuit. It comes from my upbringing and experience.