Quotes About Upbringing

I played videogames growing up, but my parents really monitored how much I was playing.

My dad was a professional musician; my mom played, too, but just for fun. All my siblings played. The house was full of music books, videos, albums. I guess it's not surprising that I ended up becoming a musician.

When I was growing up, it was a bad time to be in the military. It was the time of Vietnam, but I was never called up.

I grew up speaking Vietnamese - that was my first language because my parents didn't speak any English, and I didn't learn English until I started school.

My parents would dress us up in traditional Vietnamese clothing to go to school for heritage day. We have a Vietnamese nanny that my parents wanted us to have so we could stay in touch and know where we came from.

The way I was brought up 'he needed killing' is an airtight alibi.

Without thinking, Lillian let out a few curse words that caused Evie to blanch. One of Lillian's more questionable accomplishments was the ability to swear as fluently as a sailor, acquired from much time spent with her grandmother, who had worked as a washwoman at the harbor docks.

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

one of the true tests to tell if a man's been raised right and is a gentleman is whether he stands when a lady enters the room—or

You see, although my parents had both been saved as teenagers and loved the Lord, we didn't attend church regularly.

I was raised that way too.

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

the upside of being a therapist's child is that nothing gets shoved under the rug; the downside is that you'll be totally screwed up anyway).

I remember very little of my father, but one thing I do remember is him telling me always to be polite. It costs you nothing but breath, and can buy you as much as your life.

She'd grown up in a strict household; she'd gone insane with freedom the minute she ran away and got out on her own.

No wire hangers!!!

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.

However, no child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.