Quotes About Upbringing

A people's theology reflects the state of it's children's bottoms.

is the havoc which ensues when a man with an idealistic misconception of life born of a cloistered and emotionally deprived upbringing experiences the full, sensual impact of human passion.

Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

our favorite lake in New Hampshire, funnily enough right where Adam and Nan both grew up. Small world.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.

Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry

I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

Yet I felt he was innocent in a way I was not, that I knew more about evil than he ever could, because he had parents who loved him and wanted the best for him, while I had grown up with Mummy.