Upbringings Quotes

#1. As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.

Jamie Cullum

#2. The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known. But when I see other people's upbringings, I think, 'Hmm ... mine was rather unconventional. Quite different!'

Neon Hitch

#3. We are all creatures of our upbringings, our cultures, our times.

Oliver Sacks

#4. I don't know much about psychoanalysis, but I don't believe that we can blame our actions on our upbringings. If we could, then nobody would be responsible for anything they do.

Anne Blankman

#5. We are all products of our upbringings, Primale. The constructions that result from our choices are laid upon the foundation set by our parents and their parents before them. We are but the next level in the house or paver in the path.

J.R. Ward

#6. We're all just pinballs, getting bonked around wherever our upbringings kick us.

Cara McKenna

#7. I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That's really easy to draw from when I'm acting; that's probably the biggest similarity.

James Lafferty

#8. The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.

Ralph Nader

#9. I've always known my circumstances were far, far from the worst, but I truly believe that just the slightest misalignment in our upbringings can have such a dramatic knock-on effect on our lives.

K.A. Hill

#10. Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

Julian Casablancas

#11. People don't just let you change identities, not unless there's something in it for them.

Amy Reed

#12. I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.

Joyce Kilmer

#13. The way 'star' used to be reserved for a small number of people, and when the star category became so vast, they came up with 'superstar,' and then they came up with 'megastar.'

Tom Stoppard

#14. Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Philip Wylie

#15. Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

Don DeLillo

#16. Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars.

Tom Althouse