Quotes About Upbringing

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

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First, you were set up for the situation in which you now find yourself. You never had a chance to "do it right" because you've never experienced what "doing it right" looked like, or felt like. It hasn't been your fault if you have always felt that other people knew some secrets about successful relationships that you didn't know.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Although I was reared on a junkyard by parents who did not waste time hiking or camping, I knew pine trees and pitcher plants, bobcats and brown thrashers, as my people.

To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.

Virtually all observers agree that it is a terrible disadvantage for a child to come into the world without a father. Fatherless children are much more likely than those from two-parent homes to be poor, fail in school, commit crime, and, in turn, have fatherless children.

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

Of women who choose not to have children, most are undermothered and fear they won't know how. Sometimes they fear they will "mess up" their kids like they feel they have been messed up. (Although let's not forget that there are other important reasons someone may choose not to become a parent.)

I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.

Once you're several generations removed from your cultural heritage, how much connection is truly possible? Bits and pieces might be integrated into home life—a cultural event here, some ethnic food there—but for the most part the upbringing is American.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

Your thinking, the content of your mind, is of course conditioned by the past: your upbringing, culture, family background, and so on. The central core of all your mind activity consists of certain repetitive and persistent thoughts, emotions, and reactive patterns that you identify with most strongly.

The content you identify with is conditioned by your environment, your upbringing, and surrounding culture.

P33- the son of an english lord and an english lady nursed at the breast of kala, the great ape.

What was left of the little world he had grown up in, and whose standards had bent and bound him?

Nothing about his betrothed please him more than her resolute determination to carry to its utmost limit that ritual of ignoring the unpleasant in which they had both been brought up.

When I grew up I would always be frank, loving and generous.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

If you're examining successful people, look at their mother and father, study what they did, for clues about energy and motivation.

I realise that we're shaped by lots of other forces beyond just watching, listening and reading. We're all accidental victims of our parents' DNA; we are shaped by the luck of the draw, the circumstances in which we grew up and the education we received. But we all have two sets of very powerful tools that we completely control: our eyes and our ears. Watching others, listening to their advice and reading about people are three of the best things I ever did.

Along with believing that traditional families were bad for children, they also believed that a child's biological inheritance was unimportant and that environment was everything.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.