Quotes About Upbringing

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

I was raised in a very blue-collar family.

You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

Part of my family were ranchers. So you were expected to be quite macho. You weren't expected to cry. I was the exact opposite of that.

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.

Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.

As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

My family, my parents are hippies.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.