Religious Upbringing Quotes

#1. I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.

Cat Stevens

#2. I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.

Win Butler

#3. A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.

Mario Bunge

#4. I really had no religious upbringing, which is unusual. But I think it saved me, because when I found the theory that I wanted to follow, I did not have anything to unlearn.

Louise Hay

#5. The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews.

Huston Smith

#6. I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.

Helene Aylon

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. The religious upbringing that most people go through, and its association with Western religion, is all based on lies. At some point you either wake up and realise [that] they are lies, or you continue in a fog. I realised I had been lied to and wanted to know the truth.

Joel McLver

#10. I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

Edward Norton

#11. I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

Brian Molko

#12. Our [Western] science has cut itself off from an adequate understanding of the Subject of Cognizance, of the mind. This is precisely the point where our present way of thinking needs to be amended, perhaps by a bit of blood-transfusion from Eastern thought.

Erwin Schrodinger

#13. While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.

Woody Allen

#14. When dealing with yourself use your brain, when dealing with others use your heart

Norm Applegate

#15. What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

Hanya Yanagihara

#16. Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough manipulation of their mind and soul.

Adolf Hitler

#17. I come from a strong religious background, and I had a very conservative upbringing. So I was nervous, and confused. Here I was wanting to be Whitney Houston, so why did I have to dress in lingerie to do that? I didn't get it.

Nicole Scherzinger

#18. Avengers fucking assemble, asshole!"
- Hit Girl

Mark Millar

#19. The road ain't even marked. Home don't have to be.

Daniel H. Wilson

#20. You are the greatest undiscovered adventure of your lifetime.

Bryant McGill

#21. The woman and her dragon.
"You're mine," he said.
She smiled. "And you're mine.

Donna Grant

#22. Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.

Douglas Adams

#23. The only thing I have retained from my upbringing - I did not retain the religious element - is the idea that you do not do things for money.

John Sulston

#24. Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?

Ned Vizzini

#25. Among the many definitions of progress, "enemy of trees" and "killer of birds" seem to me the most apt.

Rabih Alameddine

#26. And he had so many nervous tics that they had to queue.

Terry Pratchett

#27. Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

Melissa Gilbert

#28. 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

#29. Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot.

Kathryn Stockett