Quotes About Upbringing

I'm a black belt in karate. I grew up on the outskirts of Paris, and it was rough.

My mom spent like a decade of her life living in Paris, and I grew up listening to a lot of French music as well as Arabic music.

We grew up in the Rose Park section of Salt Lake City. It's a good neighborhood but a tough one, on the poor side but proud. Sports are big. You learn to fight.

When I grew up, I was living on a council estate overlooking a car park for a good 16 years of my life.

My father said, 'Let's raise our child in a paradise instead of a parking lot,' and that's what they did.

Growing up in Harlem, I was always in the parks playing ball.

My parents were really into music. They would play the Funkadelics, Parliament, OutKast; they would just play that all around the house. They'd also play Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, James Brown.

When I was a little bitty kid, I was listening to the stuff my parents were listening to. My mom was a huge Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige fan. My dad had a cover band that I sang with, and he loved Parliament, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton, the blues, James Brown.

I've learnt music, since this is a part and parcel of growing up in a traditional Tamil Brahmin family. In fact, I've even given three exams in music when I was young.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I'm the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons.

In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

I'm demanding and critical about myself. It's something my parents passed on to me.

The lifestyle that I grew up in, it was passed on to me. I didn't know there was another world.

We delude ourselves that we want to implant honesty in our children: what we really want is to imbue them with our particular kind of dishonesty, with our culture's dishonesty. —Sidney Harris

For him, humans were born with potential and, given the use of reason and the right upbringing/education, could be ethically good. This was the very opposite of what would become the Christian view under St Augustine and the notion of original sin.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass, African-American social reformer and a leader of the abolitionist movement

I wouldn't say we lived in a tough neighborhood, but when I was growing up we still called a story with a happy ending an alibi.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.

They mess you up, your mom and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had, and add some extra, just for you.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy stern And half at one another's throats.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.