Quotes About Upbringing

Maureen was a buxom, smiling redhead who had grown up something of a roughneck in an Irish-Slavic family in the Bronx and had a blunt way of talking that was

I fight the tentacular grip of ungrace in my own life. Although I may not perpetuate the strictness of my upbringing, I battle daily against pride, judgmentalism, and a feeling that I must somehow earn God's approval.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

They will begin by sending out into the country all the inhabitants of the city who are more than ten years old, and will take possession of their children, who will be unaffected by the habits of their parents; these they will train in their own habits and laws, I mean in the laws which we have given them: and in this way the State and constitution of which we were speaking will soonest and most easily attain happiness, and the nation which has such a constitution will gain most. Yes

Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her

In order to live in victory, you must call the enemy's bluff, pull the curtain back, open up your spiritual eyes, and remain continually aware of the one who's truly behind a lot of the stuff you're always blaming on your circumstances, your upbringing, your boyfriend, or whoever. Even on yourself.

It didn't help matters that Khalila suddenly broke down in tears. Even Glain seemed emotional. Jess was a little surprised by that. But the real question, Jess thought, is 'why I feel so little and they feel so much.' Maybe it was his upbringing. Maybe it was all the death he'd seen in the smuggling trade. Or maybe he was just trying to keep it all locked in a small, dark box until he could face what he felt.

He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of showing a son the way.

If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.

It is easier to perform surgery than to raise happy, healthy, good children – and surgeons are given years of specialized training, while most of us have to raise human beings from babyhood to adulthood with nothing but our own parents' often very faulty model to guide us.

I'm the product of my parents' dreams and aspirations.

Although I grew up around movies, I don't know that I assumed I was going to be an actor.

My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.

If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects, poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that.

I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things. In some ways, I wish I was raised Episcopalian. I was kind of raised hodgepodge.

We were definitely not rich, but we were not poor. My mum always came home from work and did everything so that we ate well.

I was raised Christian; I was raised in the South where everybody's raised Christian, but at this point, I'm 41 years old, and I've been an atheist, at this point, a little more than half my life.

My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'

One thing about me is that my parents didn't force me to be an athlete.

I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.

I grew up working class in Atlanta.

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.