Quotes About Upbringing

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

When they were old enough to stand on a stool at the sink they washed out their shoelaces and polished their little white shoes every day before putting them away. They hung up their clothes if they were clean—which wasn't very often.

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.

I could be mad at you. I could scream at you. But I won't. You raised me to take care of myself, and I will.

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

Having grown up at the intersection of laissez-faire and benign neglect, by the time I was in high school, my comings and goings garnered little to none of my parents' attention.

Despite being raised in a working-class family, she has always had an innate elegance and an eye for quality.

Yes, to obviate his becoming such a gentleman as his father.

A Papa az ír nyugaton nÅ'tt fel - mindig is tudta, mi a helyes. Tökéletes modora volt. Ami szerintem nagyjából abból allt, hogy soha, senkinek semmit nem mondott.

Parents can only give good advice or put them [children] on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?'

I don't come from a rich family, but my parents are professionals.

I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.

I came from a middle-class family. My father was a professor in a medical college, and my mother was a schoolteacher. We led a good life but we did not have much money.

The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.

I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

I grew up in the projects. You have no choice but to fight. My jokes used to get me in fights.