Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up looking at my parents as equals.

I was brought up in church, but when I confessed my errors, they put me out.

I did not go into comedy to escape anything. I went into comedy because I had parents who thought it was a reputable way to earn a living.

I grew up on an estate in Peckham.

I had parents who taught me ethics that I didn't know they were teaching me at the time.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

I wish my parents could have raised every man out there.

I am inclined to think that in one sense we have to feel more than others—yes, doubly more—since the very attempt to restrain natural promptings entails suffering. Imagine boys—and girls too—brought up not to resort to the shedding of a tear or the uttering of a groan for the relief of their feelings, and there is a physiological problem whether such effort steels their nerves or makes them more sensitive.

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18 ' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

I told myself that I'd had life too easy, conditioned by an upbringing where fear of change was disguised as caution.

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

Outsider music sometimes develops naturally. In other cases, it could be the product of damaged DNA, psychotic seizures, or alien abduction. Perhaps medical malpractice, incarceration, or simple drug-fry triggers its evolution. Maybe shrapnel in the head. Possession by the devil-or submission to Jesus. Chalk it up to communal upbringing or bad beer. There's no universal formula.

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

She had been raised in a house full of faith, and her parents had obviously instilled unusual confidence in her. She

I love California; I practically grew up in Phoenix.

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

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One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

Spoiled children often grow up to be unhappy because people in the real world don't respond to their every whim.

parenting matters, even to the extent of influencing our inborn and genetically shaped temperament.

I had a really generic upbringing, I think, when it comes to viewing movies as a kid. I didn't really know what was out there or what was being tried. I was, like, 'E.T.' and 'Indiana Jones.' Those were the only things I knew existed.