Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

I was an altar boy, which I loved and am very proud of. It was strict, but also really nice.

My parents were very strict about manners and being polite to others. I brought my own children up that way, too.

My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?

Growing up, there was a lot of pressure for women to be good-looking, but my mum was very strict, and she didn't allow me to wear make-up. Looking back, it was good for me. It slowed me down from becoming an adult too quickly.

I grew up in a pretty strict household in the sense that we just didn't have cable, so I wasn't familiar with what stand-up comedy was. I remember telling my friends that I thought stand-up comedy was like the thing that happened before the episode of 'Seinfeld.'

We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it.

My parents were strict but loving.

My father was very strict.

My mum was quite strict, so I was in a very strict household.

Growing up, we were in a strict household, so we weren't allowed to have posters of our crushes and stuff on the wall - mine was Cristina Applegate.

I will be even more strict than my dad, because look at me, I turned out fine.

My mother was a Gandhian and very strict.

I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.

My parents were incredibly strict. My father went through a stage where he'd line us up every Friday and cane our hands if we'd been naughty. And this was mainly to pull my brother into line. My brother is five years older and my sister's eight years older. He would use a little bamboo cane, which my brother saw most of.

Even though my parents raised me in a very individualistic way, they were also strict and traditional, which was good. It was hard to sneak out! I think I was quite wild, but in some ways quite contained.

My parents were like these hippies almost: they are free-spirited, but they were also strict - which seems like a weird dynamic - but it worked.

I'd had a strict religious education.

My father was a well-known sportsperson during his time. He brought me up under strict discipline like the ex-Armyman that he was.

Like probably many people of little education who find themselves, like pop stars or film stars, suddenly lauded by the whole world, it is very difficult if you have not had a mother bringing you up who was quite stern and strict.

Parents with a West Indian background tend to be more strict.

I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.

Millennials may not put emphasis on traditional landmarks in child rearing but strive to bring up their kids to be well-adjusted, empathetic citizens of the world.