Upbringing Quotes

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You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.

Everything depends on upbringing.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

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 are endowed by their Creator.'

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

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

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

The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.

My upbringing gave me a strong will, a mental aggressiveness in what I wanted to achieve.

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.

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.

I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.

When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

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

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

it annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing.

My upbringing involves individuals who helped me along the way. I don't think I would be here today without that support.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

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.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

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

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.

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.

You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

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.

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.

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

I had a very modest upbringing.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

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