Upbringing Quotes · Page 11

My father was the nurturing one, the one who always made sure my sister and I ate properly and that our hair…

— Kenza Fourati

I feel a responsibility to myself, and not so much for the world at large. Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was…

— Anton Corbijn

I watched Elvis Presley become - I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard. I…

— Al Jarreau

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

— Vanessa Hudgens

Ultimately, it's one's upbringing, consciousness and circumstances that decide the path you'll choose.

— Vikram Bhatt

I went through a lot. I had a difficult, in some ways, a difficult upbringing. I had this kind of urge, this…

— Lola Young

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got…

— Trisha Yearwood

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more…

— Tom Wopat

At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality…

— Ben Okri

Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still…

— James Nesbitt

When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my…

— Philip Zimbardo

What le Carré is so good at is unpicking something very specific about Englishness. That is almost part of why I think…

— Tom Hiddleston

I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a…

— Ric Roman Waugh

By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a…

— Eugenio Maria de Hostos

I'm so grateful to my parents for my upbringing and for all of the opportunities that I was provided with, but I…

— Ivanka Trump

We all bear within us the potentiality for every kind of passion, every fate, every way of life. Nothing human is alien…

— Max Reinhardt

But, at the end of the day, you live in the world with billions of people, and everyone has a unique upbringing…

— Becky Hammon

It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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

— Kristen Stewart

The key thing I took from my upbringing is that people are just people. My parents never worried about status.

— Hugh Dennis

Brass bands are part of my upbringing. Brass band records were among the first records I listened to.

— Johann Johannsson

My mom and dad met at U. Conn., and their lives couldn't have been more different in terms of their upbringing.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

— David Oyelowo

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

— Anthony Kiedis

“A crap upbringing doesn't make someone weak, it makes them strong or how else could they get through it.”

— Suzanne Wright

“Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My upbringing is such that I feel my husband is superior to me and his mother even more superior.

— Sonia Gandhi

I had a very tough upbringing. We all had to do something called 'manual labour.' Mostly it meant getting up at 5…

— Kemi Badenoch

In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment.

— Ronnie Musgrove

I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I…

— Vanilla Ice

I just think the fact that I was told not to be curious about the dark side, and it was such a…

— Diane Birch

That's my upbringing. Try, if it doesn't work out, try again. It was the same thing with Parliament.

— Sam Gyimah

I think that's the greatest gift she gave us, this normal upbringing without her fame hanging over our heads. It actually prepared…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh…

— Gunter Brus

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

— Joan Wallach Scott

I don't want to keep talking about my upbringing because people always resort to the past and what happened when I was…

— Terence Crawford

I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did…

— Jamie Foxx

Don't let your upbringing, your surroundings, whatever situation you are living in, don't let those stop you from being the greatest you…

— Aquaria

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

— Anselm Kiefer

I had to train myself to like spicy foods as I got older because they weren't a part of my upbringing at…

— Lisa Hanawalt