Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up a Madonna fan, still am a Madonna fan, and will die a Madonna fan.

The majority of my family is Auburn fans, and I grew up watching Auburn football, and that's always who I've cheered for.

I got three whippings a day from my mama.

I was a mama's boy.

My mama whupped me away from the penitentiary.

Because I didn't come from money I didn't know to manage it.

I grew up in the IBM school of management.

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right and to have manners.

My mother brought me up to be respectable," she said. "She never let me near the scullery, or the kitchen either." "I don't believe this!" Peter said. "Why is it respectable not to know how to do things? Is it respectable to light a fire with a bar of soap?

People kept coming up to her all day, saying, "Is it true what Nina says—you come from a broken home?" "Broken right in half," Polly replied to each one. "There's a hole in the middle where the garden is. You get rained on trying togo upstairs." (p. 154)

She had a very traditional Catholic upbringing and that didn't deter her. On the contrary it strengthened her determination to be true to herself, to follow her heart, even though it meant enduring a lot of self-sacrifice. Intrigued

He had given up trying to make her believe only what was true, she had been raised to the kind of religion that could admit no difference between what was true and what was good.

We have to be taught to be good. It doesn't come natural.

the vast majority of children are not trained in the way they should go, for when they reach adulthood, they do not walk with God.

His ability came from being raised in Blackford County, Indiana, where cussing among men was as necessary as church on Sunday. Except, in Wade's case, it was church on Saturday, because Wade's daddy was a religious bigot who hated Jews, Negroes, Catholics, Coca Cola (which represented frivolity and broken dietary laws), F.D.R., city people, country people, and members of his own 7th Day Adventist church.

Perhaps the greatest social servise that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family George Bernard Shaw

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.

But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters

If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.

There is no more prideful creature than a man born poor.