Quotes About Upbringing

Good homes are still the best source of good humans.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

I think because I was brought up in a Christian home, I was kind of careful not to swear in my lyrics.

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value.

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

I certainly don't live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

You learn so much from your parents. We grew up in a home where we were definitely taught to be confident. I definitely give me parents a lot of credit.

I think the new school is dope. Artists like Kid Cudi, The Cool Kids, Drake and Wale can come out of middle class homes and be on tracks with people like Jay-Z, who's from the hood and the street.

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.

I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.