Quotes About Christian Upbringing

#1. 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

#2. I always wanted more - more of everything.

George Best

#3. Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

#4. I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.

Mira Sorvino

#5. It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

Laozi

#6. I think there should be very strict limits on the pathogens that can be sold in your meat. There should be limits on disease-causing pathogens. Tests should determine whether the meat is contaminated or not, and you shouldn't be allowed to sell contaminated meat.

Eric Schlosser

#7. I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing

Tony Benn

#8. 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

#9. Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

Aaron Schock

#10. I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan.

Cheshire Cat

#11. I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.

Donald Hall

#12. Hope is not guaranteed, keep it at your own risk.

Kelvin Trambadiya

#13. Batman: What have I told you about trusting dangerous and obsessive criminal geniuses?

Wonder Woman: To be fair, you tend to warn everyone about everything.

Batman: Point.

Landry Q. Walker

#14. To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.

Chester Elijah Branch

#15. We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

Carl Sagan

#16. My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.

Wynton Marsalis

#17. When I do music I don't do it with a purpose in mind. I just feel like it's a little bit contrived if you try to do something like that. It's got to come organically.

Jay Sean

#18. Each Christian comes from a different background, upbringing, lineage, and environment. But in Christ we are unified.

Elizabeth George

#19. It does not matter how awesome your product is or your presentation or your post. Your awesome thing matters ONLY to the extent that it serves the user's ability to be a little more awesome.

Kathy Sierra

#20. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

David Rockefeller

#21. I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.

Aage Bohr