Quotes About Upbringing

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself.

My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

When a man who treats his woman like a princess, it is proof that he has been raised by a queen.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

It is easier To build up a child than it is to repair an adult...Chose your words wisely.

The only thing my dad taught me, was how to survive and that was by him not being there. A man made me, mummy raised me.

Unfortunately my parents had recourse to principles entirely different from those which I suggested they should adopt

Boys who see their fathers beat their mothers will likely grow up to be men who beat their wives.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on

For better or worse, it is the "three wrong" that sticks in one's memory after the math test is returned, not the "seventeen right." I wonder what happens when a child hears a recitation of his failures day after day, year after year? Do you have a strong negative internal voice that is critical of yourself and others? Where did that voice come from? It is the result of our own upbringings that tracked our failures rather than our successes.