Quotes About Upbringing

Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

I'm just going to be as honest as I can with my children and really try to build their character to be as strong as ours is.

Only in a nation like ours could someone like me, the scrappy son of a simple carpenter, grow up to become a simple senator.

Ours was a never a 'religious' religious home because my parents thought of religion as something you do: it's the way you engage in the local community. That has meant a lot to me.

I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.

There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married set of parents.

My brother and I were brought up outdoors. We appreciate the countryside; we appreciate nature and everything about it.

Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.

My dad had me in little baseball outfits and bats in the crib.

We came from a humble background but with a lot of love, so we were able to overcome that.

I just had different circumstances than most players, and I think that has been an advantage - maybe I carry a little chip on my shoulder with just how tough it was for my parents to overcome some of those financial situations.

I know there are a lot of kids who aren't lucky enough to have a father figure in their lives. That's a really tough obstacle to overcome.

I was the third parent, growing up, and it did make me a very overly responsible adult.

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

My mom was a truck driver and my dad use to call her a mother trucker.

Growing up in stable, happy, and secure households may end up killing ambition, which leads to downward social mobility. The most extreme examples of this are found in aristocratic families, in which the amount of inherited wealth tends to decline with every generation.

The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.