Quotes About Upbringing

I've met secular humanists who grew up in evangelical households, for whom 'Cosmos' was their first exposure to a scientific way of viewing the world.

I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.

Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

I experienced the sharp end of a tough time, living with a single parent, my mum, and she was really struggling to get a job. These are the things that form your views in life. They are established when you are growing up and being raised. That stuff doesn't really go away; that stays with you.

My views are politically incorrect. Such as why we allow children to say what they think. It's not how to bring up children. And now people give their children choices, like what they want to eat. Kids can't deal with choices.

I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

I grew up in a village just outside Le Mans, so nature and fresh air are among the things I love the most.

The second child of a small farmer with six children, I come from a village in Bihar on the border of Nepal called Belwa. I was there till the age of 17 and studied in a Hindi-speaking boarding school run by Catholics in a nearby district town.

I grew up in a mud house, in a small village.

I grew up in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, a small village near Barcelona. My house was near the countryside, so there was a lot of nature, and at the same time my village is surrounded by factories. That conditioned me a little bit.

I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.

I come from a small village.

Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total.

I grew up in a miniature village in the middle of the countryside in England, quite secluded from the outside world. I was always enamored by the fashion industry.

I am a low-key girl from a middle-class family of a small village.

I'd spent my first 12 years in New York in an East Village walk-up. The upstairs neighbor was the cowboy from the Village People.

My parents were simpletons. Everyday living was a big thing in that small village where I was born. They had no clue about music.

I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.

I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.