Top 100 Quotes About Upbringing
#1. Mother, with her upbringing in the primitive Baptist church, believed that converting to Roman Catholicism was a step upward in the social order. Of course she was wrong; when I grew up in the South, a Roman Catholic was the weirdest thing you could be.
Pat Conroy
#2. It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.
Ian McKellen
#3. My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
Maajid Nawaz
#4. The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims all men [and women] are endowed by their creator.
Antonin Scalia
#5. Seriously, far beyond whether you have a natural birth or not, use cloth diapers or don't, opt to breastfeed or use formula, the two most important things that will influence your child's upbringing are your relationship with God and your relationship with your spouse.
Katherine Ladny Mitchell
#6. Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of being alone.
Philip Pullman
#7. India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love.
Clark Blaise
#8. Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.
W. H. Auden
#9. The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.
Lucinda Williams
#11. There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.
Benjamin Clementine
#12. I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional ... it's probably my Celtic upbringing.
Pierce Brosnan
#13. At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.
Ben Okri
#14. If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese.
Mike Schmidt
#15. In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.
Dee Dee Myers
#16. the idea that someone with a different upbringing, from a different part of the country, with a different outlook and a different viewpoint, might actually have something valid to say, something worth listening to.
Bill O'Reilly
#17. I make no bones about it, I'm a product of my upbringing and of the time I was brought up, so I'm not going to pretend not to be.
David Davis
#18. My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.
Trisha Yearwood
#19. I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time.
Alice Smith
#20. By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.
Abhishek Bachchan
#21. Laura's upbringing made her wonder for a moment whether it was quite respectful of a workman to talk to her of bangs slap in the eye. But she did quite follow him.
Katherine Mansfield
#22. I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.
Karen Armstrong
#24. 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
#25. You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#26. I was so determined not to pass on to my children what I perceived to be the faults of my upbringing.
Roger Lloyd-Pack
#27. Grace is thoughtful. It considers a back-story, an upbringing, the entire person, and not just a tiny single slice of their life.
J.S. Park
#28. They ran past him without notice, but I paused and stood over the boy. I wanted to feel something--wanted to find some understanding in his actions; some empathy in his upbringing; at least a fragment of sympathy for the secret he carried.
Christopher Scotton
#29. I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.
Andrew Solomon
#30. I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.
Sky Ferreira
#31. I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
Ian Watson
#32. My mom comes from a really out-there upbringing, so for her, the way she raised me is pretty disciplined. I was home-schooled but more really unschooled, really.
Ellar Coltrane
#33. You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.
Thomas Keneally
#34. At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions of immortality - a product of my very conservative religious upbringing - were still pretty much intact.
Sam Keen
#35. I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that's why I experienced the occasional guilt with my habits.
Anne Jackson
#36. I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.
Graham Norton
#37. I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.
Morgan Freeman
#38. 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
#39. I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music because of my rural upbringing. I really reduced the amount of time that sports took up in my life.I still have some Faulkner to get through.
Nick Offerman
#40. One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.
Lyn Nofziger
#41. 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
#42. I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.
Emilia Fox
#43. I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I'm grateful to my parents for that.
Amanda Burton
#44. On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.
Julian Lennon
#45. It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
Idris Elba
#46. Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do
Cole Porter
#47. In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
E. O. Wilson
#48. My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
Keira Knightley
#49. My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.
Stephen Mangan
#50. I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.
Andrea Bocelli
#51. 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
#52. I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.
Dean Wareham
#53. 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
#54. During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.
Bianca Jagger
#55. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone ... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#56. I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on.
Vanessa Hudgens
#57. Let's recognize that success in life is a reflection not only of enterprise and willpower but also of chance and early upbringing, and that compassion isn't a sign of weakness but a mark of civilization.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#58. Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.
Elliot Perlman
#59. If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#60. I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
James Hillman
#61. A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#62. When you start paying attention to diversity, you notice it (and notice its absence!). And based on the culture of your upbringing and the culture of your organization, you may or may not be primed to think consciously about innovation.
David Livermore
#63. You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.
Dannel Malloy
#64. I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.
Tori Amos
#65. Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [ ... ] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.
Richard Dawkins
#66. It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. ( ... ) The "Tell the truth!" imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman.
Milan Kundera
#67. The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing.
Christine O'Donnell
#68. Thanks to my upbringing, I always believed in myself and worked as hard as I could to get where I wanted to be. Nothing was ever handed to me.
Gretchen Carlson
#69. My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
Anthony Kiedis
#70. I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.
Luke Ford
#71. Your attitude toward life is more important than environment, upbringing, and even your education. So always have a happy positive attitude.
Debasish Mridha
#72. In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment.
Ronnie Musgrove
#73. I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
Jeffrey Archer
#74. But at a certain point in our lives, we cannot passively allow our upbringing to define us. We must choose it or choose other.
Jon Skovron
#75. Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.
Simon Soloveychik
#76. I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.
James Taylor
#77. I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.
Joaquin Phoenix
#78. I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.
Danny Dyer
#79. If you had a free society you couldn't get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in ones children. They would say; There must be many other ways of solving problems other then killing people.
Jacque Fresco
#80. We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests that something that is physically wrong in a brain is wholly unrelated to that person's upbringing or experiences in the world, but that is not necessarily true.
Siri Hustvedt
#81. I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man's talents than the upbringing of his son.
Conn Iggulden
#82. Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.
Joseph Stefano
#83. Our lives are just our genes and our upbringing. We simply act out the script that was forced upon us.
Orson Scott Card
#84. With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.
Steve Garvey
#85. My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.
Denise Mina
#86. The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide for the mental, moral and social upbringing of their offspring.
John Hardon
#87. As a rule children of tough and imperious parents sticking to authoritarian method of upbringing have a victim complex
Sunday Adelaja
#88. The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.
Kathy Baker
#89. Her unusual upbringing had made her worldly enough to understand that every female, no matter her genus and species, had the ability to physically coerce a male into full cooperation.
And yes, she knew just the male to coerce.
Delilah Marvelle
#90. We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
Malcolm Gladwell
#91. Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.
Silvano Arieti
#92. I wasn't interested in becoming a man. I was interested in becoming a more dashing, brilliant, charismatic, mysterious, attractive-to-girls version of what my suburban, television-age upbringing had turned me into - which was basically a collection of appetites.
Jonathan V. Last
#93. Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.
Isaac Rosenberg
#94. You have to realise that I am the third out of six children, and I am raised with very strong core values and a very strong upbringing. I always put myself in other people's shoes.
Angela Ahrendts
#95. You can rationalize anything, but that is not total honesty, only your version of it based on your upbringing and experiences outside of everyone else's reality.
Shannon L. Alder
#96. India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.
Narendra Modi
#97. A crap upbringing doesn't make someone weak, it makes them strong or how else could they get through it.
Suzanne Wrightt
#98. I had a normal upbringing and went to public school. If I ever, even for a second, started getting a big head, I was brought back to reality pretty quickly. I was working full time and still had to fight for a cell phone.
Mila Kunis
#99. I still follow the lifestyle of the Mormon church. I try to go to church every Sunday even when I'm on tour. It's not only my upbringing, but it helps me stay sane. It helps me remember my purpose and the overall picture of what is important to me and what makes me happy.
Lindsey Stirling
#100. I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.
Lydia Leonard
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