Quotes About Upbringing

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.

All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.

When I was 10 there wasnt trampolines and cartoon charaters, I never went to Chuck E Cheese! My mom said 'You wanna see a mouse pull the refrigerator Out!'

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.