Quotes About Upbringing

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.

My father's sister never married in order to raise me.

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

My father was a lawyer.