Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

First, people may vary because they inherited different genes from their parents. Second, genetically similar individuals may differ because they have lived in different environments.5 Finally, people may differ because they have acquired different beliefs, values, and skills

In fact, the most important influence predicting a person's level of generalized trust is the attitude of his parents.84 And that would make generalized trust a culturally transmitted trait. Lorenzo

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another's throats. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do.

It's always something we have to negotiate — the fact that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done.

My mother once told me that you really know someone when you know their parents.

Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.

My dad was like the Marine Corps. Only instead of tearing you to pieces and then putting you back together, he just did the first part and called it a day. Now it seems cruel, abusive even, but this all happened before the invention of self-esteem, which frankly, I think is a little overrated.

No one had a houseful of servants or a trained proboscis monkey, yet we'd turned out OK, hadn't we?

In this chapter, what do you find out about Janie's parents and early childhood? CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1

I do love my dad, we have a great relationship now but there were years when he was absent and it was my mum that raised me.

I look back on how I was as a child, I had a wonderful mom and an absent father, but I still had a great childhood.

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.

I'm a child of academics.

I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.

My mother has lived abroad and I've grown up hearing her talk, so probably that's where I get this accent from.

I was fortunate enough to be raised by parents who were very accepting. They were never afraid to let me do my thing and let me live my life.

Truth and accountability were drilled into me as a child.

My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life.