Quotes About Upbringing

What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy.

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

Holmes was expressing his deepest values, ones impressed on him from an early age. He had been raised to believe he and his peers were part of a hereditary aristocracy. He had learned from his father that they were part of a special caste whose refined physiognomy set them apart, and whose elevated intellect was "congenital and hereditary.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad', and if you're planning on writing that's probably a good thing. But if you are planning on writing and they haven't fucked you up, well, you've got nothing to go on, so then they've fucked you up good and proper.

Larkin says that they fuck you up, your mum and dad. And if you end up writing, then that's fine because if they have, then you've got something to write about. But if they haven't fucked you up, you don't have anything to write about, so then they've fucked you up good and proper.

See, Jace never learned how to flirt properly, because he was raised by a murderous sociopath.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

My parents treated me like I had a brain–which, in turn, caused me to have one.

I was brought up in the presence of the Bible, and I remember with affection what it was like to hold a dogmatic position on the statements of Christian belief. I would now describe myself as a candid friend of Christianity

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.

I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.