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Quotes About Upbringing

ashamed of yourself? What do you think your father, my old friend, would have said if he had been here to-night, and had known of all your goings on?
~ Kenneth Grahame
You didn't even keep a call-back clause?" Al asked, then waved his hand and answered his own question. "Of course not. You've had the worst upbringing of any demon I've seen." - Al to Rachel
~ Kim Harrison
If she could help it, she would totally forget about her penniless, project-housing upbringing. She would forget about the fact that she and her younger sister, Diane, had sometimes gone to bed starving…as well as about being forced to wear secondhand clothing, all of
~ Kimberla Lawson Roby
As the twig is bent, so the tree is inclined"
~ Konrad Lorenz
I grew up in a Spanish-speaking household." With una madre loca, Catholic to the core.
~ Kresley Cole
Shaylin s?kk?n bir tav?rla ellerini havaya kald?rd?. ''Tanr?ça aÅŸk?na, seni kurtlar m? büyüttü?'' ''Say?l?r,'' dedi Afrodit. ''Ama paralar? vard?.
~ Kristin Cast
Dora is too good," said Anne. "She'd behave just as well if there wasn't a soul to tell her what to do. She was born already brought up, so she doesn't need us; and I think," concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, "that we always love best the people who need us. Davy needs us badly.
~ L. M. Montgomery
I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.
~ Brad Pitt
My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.
~ Matt Damon
I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
~ Kate McKinnon
I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempestuous relationship with my dad when she was young, and that was gripping and sometimes upsetting.
~ Howard Jacobson
I have no religion. But culturally I can't escape it; I'm very Jewish.
~ Sarah Silverman
Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.
~ Jodi Picoult
No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.
~ Jodi Picoult
Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid. So I never was really into religion as a concept.
~ Aziz Ansari
It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.
~ Richard Dawkins
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.
~ Richard Dawkins
I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
~ John Cale
...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.
~ Richard Dawkins
I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.
~ Susan Jacoby
I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.
~ Winona Ryder
I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.
~ Charles Stross