Quotes About Upbringing

My mom listened to a lot of house music. My dad listened to a lot of roots and dub. I've got a lot of bass. It's been in my whole life.

That's where I get my toughness in mind. From my background when I was young, everything I've been through, everything I was going through in my life. It helped me a lot, it helped me to be strong.

I'd say I'm quite well behaved! It's just the way I've been brought up, really.

In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents.

For a while, I called myself an agnostic, which was me wanting to maintain a connection to the culture I was raised in while also undercutting a lot of the beliefs I had.

I belong to a very conservative family.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

I'm not religious. But I grew up religious in the Bible Belt.

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off.

Thomas Jefferson was his father's son. He was raised to wield power. By example and perhaps explicitly he was taught that to be great—to be heeded—one had to grow comfortable with authority and with responsibility.

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

Dicen que lo parió un fatigado vientre irlandés, pero se crió entre negros. En ese caos de catinga y de motas gozó el primado que conceden las pecas y una crencha rojiza. Practicaba el orgullo de ser blanco; también era esmirriado, chúcaro, soez.

And so, it seems to me, there is a critical problem indicated here, which parents and families have to face squarely: that, namely, of insuring that the signals which they are imprinting on their young are such as will attune them to, and not alienate them from, the world in which they are going to have to live; unless, of course, one is dead set on bequeathing to one's heirs one's own paranoia. More

Le « culturel » vient renforcer le « naturel » dans un cercle vertueux. C'est le fameux « Sois un homme, mon fils »

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

My family background was deeply Christian.

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

It's been my experience that only children never learn when to keep their fucking traps shut. An older brother would have beat that out of you.

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.

I've been singing in church since I was little; my grandmother is a pastor.

I listened to gospel music because that was just our culture, you know? My parents are pastors.

My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.