Quotes About Upbringing

My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I won't be getting out of line anytime soon.

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.

The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.

My parents were very strict Muslims, and they weren't shy about showing it.

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

My dad was a strict Muslim. He had a lot of rules.

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics. I came from a very strict background.

My grandmother was very strict. She and my mom wouldn't let me hang around the streets. It wasn't my lifestyle.

I came from a very strict background.

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

I'm a very private person who grew up with a strict German mother who believed 'loose lips sink ships.'

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

My mom could be pretty strict.

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life... I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't - I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense.

I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked.

My father is a very strict man.

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

My parents were very, very, very strict.