Quotes About Upbringing

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

I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was raised Catholic, and I admired how he used his faith.

My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.

I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it.

The faith I was born into formed me.

Instilling values of faith at an early age is important.

I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

Once you're a Catholic, you're always a Catholic—in terms of your feelings of guilt and remorse and whether you've sinned or not. Sometimes I'm wracked with guilt when I needn't be, and that, to me, is left over from my Catholic upbringing. Because in Catholicism you are born a sinner and you are a sinner all of your life. No matter how you try to get away from it, the sin is within you all the time.

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she'd grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to make her way in the world?

In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb. You can't make a race horse of a pig. No, said Samuel, but you can make a very fast pig.

At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, You can't make a race horse of a pig. Samuel replies, No, but you can make a very fast pig.

When you see good or bad in your children, you're seeing what you instilled in them after they cleared the womb.

I don't very much believe in blood," said Samuel. "I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can't make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

We never had any silk sheets in our family...