Quotes About Upbringing

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.

No mother who stands upon low ground herself can hope to place her children upon a loftier plane. They may reach it, but it will not be through her.

We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.