Quotes About Upbringing

I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

A mother isn't the person who births you; it's the person who rears you and shows you love.

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.

With three boys in the house, my mother was always on us when growing up about keeping our faces clean, washing behind our ears, and brushing our teeth. So I still take my morning routine seriously.

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house