Good Upbringing Quotes

#1. A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Anton Chekhov

#2. If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#3. I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

Danny Dyer

#4. I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.

Tom Selleck

#5. Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress ... I got lost on the subway.

Piper Perabo

#7. You don't have in IN you to be like that, Hughie.
You had too nice an upbringing.
Your mom and dad were too good to you.
And I wish you could see that you're not less of a MAN, or some sort of inferior person, just because you can't be harsh and hard and cold.

Garth Ennis

#8. We all travel life's highway, making good and bad choices based on upbringing and beliefs. And, in the end, we have to be able to live with what we've done.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#9. I've been identified with pink throughout my career, but I'm not as crazy about it as I've led people to believe. My favorite colors are actually neutrals - black and white - but then who thinks of a movie queen in black and white? Everything has to be in living color.

Jayne Mansfield

#10. Fortunately, there is a project that will create jobs, provide direct investment in our economy, and move us closer to our longstanding goal of becoming energy independent: the Keystone XL pipeline.

Kevin McCarthy

#11. My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.

Lisa Whelchel

#12. This is unexpected ... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.

Earl Derr Biggers

#13. I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I had some ugly clothes growing up, and I never had any privileges. In some ways, I think the person that I am now, I think it's good that I had that kind of tough upbringing.

Amy Chua

#14. I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.

Aaron Paul

#15. I've always liked music that has a darker vein to it. I come from such a safe upbringing - very stable, classic family, everything's nice and good - I was always looking for something different.

Tove Lo

#16. I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And I fantasized about being a drug-dealer when I was a kid. I thought it would be a good opportunity; I knew that the market would be strong. Is that bizarre?

Jared Leto

#17. With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

Steve Garvey

#18. I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

John Francis

#19. Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing.

Steven Pinker

#20. When the gardeners are good, the flower will bloom.

Amish Tripathi

#21. How quick, brutal, and fragile is life. You are born, you live a few years in wild hope, then you are dragged back into the night. You might have breathed on a little longer, had you not dared think yourself a human creature instead of an engine of muscle and bone.

Donna Gillespie

#22. God does not forgive the sins He makes us commit.

Jose Saramago

#23. Between the combination of Judeo-Christian religious 'be good be good be good' and Capitalist 'something's wrong with you, buy this' and the parental upbringing, which is 'you're wrong, you're not thin enough, you're not smart enough' I mean, hello! We don't have a shot.

Eve Ensler

#24. I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.

John Stamos

#25. Every moment, every day, we are all making something -- whether it's science or art, a relationship to a destiny -- building it choice by choice, moment by moment.

Claudia Gray

#26. Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#27. A 'good' father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a 'good' father who is also a 'brave' father will let the children without cultivate the child within.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.

Maureen Connolly

#29. Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

Shinichi Suzuki

#30. But sometimes, things are better to just hear. Some questions better left unasked. Some words better left unsaid. Because saying them doesn't make you matter any less.

A. Lynn

#31. As you give yourself wholeheartedly to me, I am able to give back to you with greater abundance. Do not be a miser with your spirit. Commit to me. Spend energy on me and I will reward you with a life beyond your dreams.

Julia Cameron

#32. If there was one thing we shared, thanks to our upbringing in an ATI-aware household, it was the knowledge that the sudden smell of mysterious baked goods never meant anything good for anybody.

Seanan McGuire

#33. Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.

D. A. Carson

#34. What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#35. I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.

Jim Crace

#36. Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.

Sharon Gannon

#37. What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing ... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.

Jean Dujardin

#38. It was frustrating, the way this siblings worshipped their parents. What part of their worlds would crumble if they took a good look at their parents' flaws? If there was no trauma, why not talk about the everyday, human elements of their upbringing? Call a spade a spade.

Angela Flournoy