Quotes About Upbringing

Living in the projects helped me with this role.

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

As a child of the Commonwealth, I had been brought up to believe Great Britain was the promised land, a culture where the rule of law was observed and decency was embedded in the national fabric.

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

When I was growing up, my family was serious about manners. I always wanted to put my elbow on the table to prop my head up. I didn't understand how other people looked awake. My head felt so heavy after the whole day.

Sacramento is where I grew up, so I felt like it had not been given its proper due in cinema.

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

I was raised in a conservative Christian household. We weren't even allowed to watch 'secular' television, anything that was deemed not proper for Christians.

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

All I care about are my children and that they are brought up properly and that they don't try to play their dad and mom against each other because they know we don't get along.

I didn't come from a rich family. We had no money. And now living in all these lavish houses and property around the world, it's my choice. It's something that I've worked for.

The choice of films I make is directly proportional to the kind of cinema I have grew up watching.

I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter.

Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.

Miley grew up around animals and with all our horses growing up, so she is very passionate about protecting all animals.

I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother's black. I'm black because I grew up in a family of all black people. I knew I was black because I grew up in an all-white neighborhood. And my parents, as part of their protective mechanisms that they were going to give to us, made it very clear what we were.

I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My father is Protestant, and while he was spiritual, he wasn't much of a churchgoing person. I think it's fairly common for families to be brought up in the mother's religion.

My parents were extremely liberal. They didn't believe in being Catholic or Protestant, and that was a big deal at the time.

Growing up, I saw Mum as being so celebratory of our culture. So I was surprised to hear - during discussions sparked by the Black Lives Matter protests - about the racism she experienced growing up, and the shame she once felt about being black.

I was brought up correctly and in the right way, and my parents are very proud of the fact that I am a professional footballer.

I was born into a loving family who was able to provide me with everything.

If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by the clear springs where the nymphs rise, and the rich pastures starred with roses and hyacinths for the goddesses to gather.

brought up rather than brought out. Dick

I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.