Quotes About Upbringing

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened.

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.