Upbringing Quotes · Page 10

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of…

— Sam Palladio

Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of…

— Anderson Cooper

“To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about…

— Robert Graves

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Benjamin Clementine

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

— Joe Orton

Confidence was the backbone of my upbringing. I was an only child, so I was spoilt, loved, and given an enormous amount…

— Miriam Margolyes

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

— Marsden Hartley

So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I…

— AJ Michalka

Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of…

— John Thune

I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy…

— Chaka Khan

All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a…

— John Green

A lot of my family weren't present when I was young, so I was getting a lot of stories told to me…

— Bugzy Malone

I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,'…

— Rachel Boston

Theater actually took time to pique my interest. It just wasn't a part of my upbringing. I don't have anyone in the…

— Betty Gabriel

The acting training in school was great, but it was mostly fun being young and in New York. Because my upbringing was…

— Pedro Pascal

On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other,…

— Julian Lennon

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

— Helene Aylon

The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.

— Lauren Bacall

“I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man’s…

— Conn Iggulden

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

— Anonymous

I came from a really small village outside Edinburgh in Scotland and had quite a sheltered upbringing.

— Nina Nesbitt

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

— Khaled Hosseini

There was a warm and encouraging environment at home. My self-loathing and neuroticism are not because of my upbringing.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe…

— Bruce Bennett

I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American…

— Peter P. Mahoney

“how much a person was defined by geography, and how much by upbringing, education, profession, faith and choice of friends. ‘How much…

— James Runcie

If you had met me as a kid you would have never predicted me to be a success. I had a pretty…

— Joe Wicks

I had a complicated upbringing, so I had to rely on myself and figure out what that meant and rely on my…

— Jaz Sinclair

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

— Joseph Stefano

For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school.

— Hozier

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also…

— Jeffrey Archer

IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Ralph Nader

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

— Robert Mankoff

I had a very humble upbringing, earned everything I got, and learned how challenging it is in the pro wrestling business.

— Jim Ross

I make no bones about it, I'm a product of my upbringing and of the time I was brought up, so I'm…

— David Davis

I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I…

— Dean Wareham

I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that…

— Andrea Bocelli

I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

— Andrea Bocelli