Tough Upbringing Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

Vanilla Ice

#3. None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever.

Gary L. Francione

#4. 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

#5. Choosing an agenda that supports the apparatuses of racial violence always pays better.

Dean Spade

#6. All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

Margaret Chan

#7. Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.

Barack Obama

#8. I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Stephen Sondheim

#9. I look forward to the day when a mongolian idiot, treated biochemically, becomes a successful geneticist.

Jerome Lejeune

#10. She wants your secrets. She wants your soul. You've got to crack yourself open and find that broken, shameful piece of your heart that you'd hide from the world and God Himself if you could manage it. And then serve it up to her on a platter.

Tessa Dare

#11. Only felines were better than humans at sarcasm.

Gavin G. Smith

#12. He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom assurance sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.

T. S. Eliot

#13. for her. So the kind girl beside him would never feel pain from her past again. He

Karen Kingsbury

#14. As a rule children of tough and imperious parents sticking to authoritarian method of upbringing have a victim complex

Sunday Adelaja

#15. I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

Amy Sedaris

#16. Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

Peter Straub