Brought Up Quotes

#1. I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind.

Clive James

#2. My mum's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here tonight and I would like if you see her for you to congratulate her because she brought up four kids alone and she deserves congratulations for that.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#3. We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.

Penn Jillette

#5. I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

Natalie Imbruglia

#6. I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

S. Truett Cathy

#7. I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

Christopher Meloni

#8. Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.

James Vincent McMorrow

#9. I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground.

Sarah Hall

#10. I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#11. The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.

Alan Garner

#12. Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.

Arjun Rampal

#13. Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up ... Theater of all sorts.

Ian McKellen

#14. I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

Kaya Scodelario

#15. As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure

Lisa Ling

#16. But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.

Simone De Beauvoir

#17. I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

Damien Hirst

#18. I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.

W.G. Sebald

#19. Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness.

Lois Lowry

#20. I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

Brigitte Bardot

#21. I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, 'We're black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we're all brought up differently.'

Kevin Hart

#22. It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it ...

Doris Lessing

#23. Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

Caroline Corr

#24. That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

Owen Feltham

#25. I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.

Patti Smith

#26. I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference.

David Miliband

#27. I am succeeding very well so far with my legging, but it is a very mean business for a man that has been well brought up to engage in. It is the only way to get a bill from Cincinnati through, so it must be done.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#28. The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

Don McLean

#29. Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understand me. He reminds me that language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. Ironic to find myself on the other side of the intellectual fence.

Daniel Keyes

#30. I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Marilyn Monroe

#31. I owe a great deal to the church for everything in which I believe. I am very glad that I was brought up strictly. I was a very serious child. There was not a lot of fun and sparkle in my life.

Margaret Thatcher

#32. I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant Catholics, whether we're from Methodist or Baptist or what.

Aimee Semple McPherson

#33. The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.

James Mercer

#34. You said something slightly off-color about her shoes and she brought up the fact that you had a slow eye and danced like a goat with a rock stuck in its ass. Ouch. You would just be playing and homegirl would be coming down on you off the top rope.

Junot Diaz

#35. I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

Michael Morpurgo

#36. I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.

Nancy Grace

#37. I was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values.

Richard Smalley

#38. Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingly, and they are still waiting for the blessing.

Jeanette

#39. I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

Jarvis Cocker

#40. The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.

Jacque Fresco

#41. I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.

Jim Crace

#42. I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

Hume Cronyn

#43. If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?

Kanye West

#44. We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree 0f vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#45. Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

John Pople

#46. Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

Luke Evans

#47. I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.

Paul Westerberg

#48. A clear indication that something is not resolved is that it is brought up over and over again. In this situation, working out a plan to make some changes may be necessary. Relationships require teamwork.

Krystal Kuehn

#49. I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

Sally Quinn

#50. A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#51. Don't forget that in Thailand you're brought up never to admit a mistake.

Jo Nesbo

#52. I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand.

Emma Watson

#53. The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

Bill Hicks

#54. I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

J. Paul Getty

#55. Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

Billy Ray Cyrus

#56. I was brought up in a Christian environment where, because God had to be given pre-eminence, nothing else was allowed to be important. I have broken through to the position that because God exists, everything has significance.360

Mark A. Noll

#57. The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

Lewis H. Lapham

#58. I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

Annie Lennox

#59. I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century ... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

Peter Wolf

#60. It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.

Andy Serkis

#61. I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic.

Mariella Frostrup

#62. You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

Saul Bass

#63. I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.

Kelsey Grammer

#64. Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish their
children to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they must
understand that their children are not their property; that their children are
entitled to pursue happiness in any way they wish.

Graham Masterton

#65. I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#66. I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.

Mimi Kennedy

#67. No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.

Carlos Fuentes

#68. I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.

Joseph Monninger

#69. You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

Isaac Rosenberg

#70. None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.

Sanjay Dutt

#71. I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.

Tamsin Egerton

#72. I was brought up to think that women were inhibited, but they sure are not with me. I guess I am lucky or there is something about me that makes them feel totally comfortable, open, and expressive. I don't mind; it feels good and the rest unfolds naturally.

J.F. Kelly

#73. My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.

Christopher Reeve

#74. I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

George Meyer

#75. Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught

John Maynard Keynes

#76. It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable, and it wasn't poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full of delights.

Peter Capaldi

#77. I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard in life, then good would come to you. The harder you work, the luckier you get. I've come to believe that it's the smarter you work, the better.

Ken Blanchard

#78. I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

James Cash Penney

#79. I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don't pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, 'Oh, if God spares me next year ... ' or 'Please God ... ' but they're only phrases.

Cilla Black

#80. Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil")

Julian Hawthorne

#81. PM Modi needs to do something about first cleaning this country of uncivilized, badly brought up kids with no regard, consideration or respect for others.

Nidhi Singh

#82. People are brought up to think, "It's nice to be modest. It's nice to hide your light under a bushel." Well, bullshit! I've never bought that. In my business, the only thing you've really got is your talent; it's the only thing you have to sell.

Johnny Carson

#83. I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

Joyce Carol Oates

#84. It makes me sad that grown up books don't have pictures in them. You're brought up with them when you're younger, and then suddenly they're all taken away.

Jen Campbell

#85. When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Uma Thurman

#86. I don't like to trash talk ... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.

Uriah Hall

#87. I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

Britt Ekland

#88. I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

Francesca Annis

#89. I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

Naomi Benaron

#90. I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they are amongst all the horrors of civilization. The 'daring' child who used to be common enough, is seldom met nowadays.

Muriel Wace

#91. I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself, and then to do so in a way that's pleasing to hear. But I've always had a need to make my presence known. I was just sort of born that way, I guess. It's my natural tendency.

Patty Griffin

#92. It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

Kathleen Hanna

#93. I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

Romola Garai

#94. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

Colin Hay

#95. I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

Billie Jean King

#96. Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Dolly Parton

#97. My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

Matt Damon

#98. I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

Nicholas Haslam

#99. William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.

Kenneth Tynan

#100. I was brought up with a whole bunch of cousins in the Wye Valley during the hippy days of the 1970s.

Saul David