Upbringing Quotes

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

There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.

The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing.

India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love.

People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

I just think the fact that I was told not to be curious about the dark side, and it was such a religious-heavy upbringing made me interested in goth culture.

My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.

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

My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

Thanks to my upbringing, I always believed in myself and worked as hard as I could to get where I wanted to be. Nothing was ever handed to me.

As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.

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

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted in principles.

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.

My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.

My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.

I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in high school we would go drink kegs in cornfields.

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

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

One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.

Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.

India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.

I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.

Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.

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

I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military.

I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.

I had a different upbringing - my dad worked three jobs. You know, it wasn't as easy as they had it.

Exercise is great for endorphins, and I come from a very outdoorsy upbringing, so that means a lot to me.

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.

My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened.

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on.

Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.