Upbringing Quotes

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.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

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.

We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing.

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

I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.

I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

I had a very modest upbringing.

I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

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.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

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.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.