Quotes About Upbringing

He, Sam McGowan, having been raised in a house where women were expected to achieve, had had any potential sexist inclination beaten out of him by his oldest sister long ago.

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

My mom raised me so wonderfully. She gave me self esteem and made me appreciate my flaws, as well as my strengths.

White parents use time out. My mom used a different type of time out. She'd be like, 'There...take time out to pick up your teeth.'

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

I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with.

On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

his conscience was at war with all his aristocratic upbringing. Gentlemen never apologized.

You know what the aristocracy is like. They turn their children over to the care of nurses and governesses from the day they are born and have little to do with them after that.

People's early experiences shape how crazy or how sane they become.

People who were coddled often are needy or manipulative or become highly emotional when they're expected to do something they don't want to do.

You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.

I grew up in a funny way.

I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us look at the family's financial records.

He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.

The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.

The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.