Quotes About Upbringing

I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn't have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

I was an only child.

My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.

I have really musical parents, and my dad was always encouraging, but the desire to get onstage and perform really did come from me. I'd never push my future children.

I come from a middle-class family, but we are open-minded people.

I have a lot of respect for everything my mom had to do. And she made sure I understood how to respect women in ways that some people don't. She opened my eyes.

I don't mean to make a generalization, but I do at the same time, from what I know about people from the Midwest, it seems like their families would talk about money openly in front of them when they were kids. They'd say stuff like, 'We're broke! We're gonna lose the house!'

I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where we listened to all kinds of music. We listened to Haitian, hip hop, soul, classical jazz, gospel and Cuban music, to name a few. When you have access to that as a child, it just opens up your world.

My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up.

I grew up having to piss in a bucket 'cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I'll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don't have to strain.

Hands up!' said Mr Cootes with the uncouth curtness of one who has not had the advantages of a refined home and a nice upbringing.

Mi madre, por su parte, era una reina de corazones y nos educó exclusivamente por medio del amor. Después

mother, with her upbringing in the primitive Baptist church, believed that converting to Roman Catholicism was a step upward in the social order. Of course she was wrong; when I grew up in the South, a Roman Catholic was the weirdest thing you could be.

Hell, Lowenstein! She made a schizophrenic! My mother should have raised cobras, not children!

my middle-class background had not prepared me for life without scented toilet paper.

Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind that Al Capone had. Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was—and where he was. For it is those things— and only those things—that made him what he was. The only reason, for example, that you are not a rattlesnake is that your mother and father weren't rattlesnakes.

Langdon was impressed. "You know Latin." "I grew up Catholic. I know sin.

I grew up Catholic. I know sin.

In so doing, it's important to place responsibility where it truly belongs by acknowledging that: You aren't responsible for what your parents did to you, they are. You are responsible for what you do with your life now, your parents aren't.

You might already be able to tell that I was born with a silver spoon up my ass. I offer no apologies.

If there is a remedy, I feel it must lie in how we prepare our young for life.

What can we change that will help our children fare better in life?