Upbringing Quotes · Page 6

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

— Amy Chua

I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and…

— Aaron Paul

I was raised on a reservation, went to public school. It's a very normal, sort of working-class upbringing in one way, and…

— Lily Gladstone

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

— Sharon Horgan

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

— Neon Hitch

The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are so thankful for this…

— Tim Hudson

My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did.…

— Ellie Goulding

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

— Anonymous

I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very…

— Jared Leto

Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts…

— Lilian Katz

I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I was very proud to be Mrs. Curtis Amy. My thing in life when I married Curtis Amy was being Mrs. Curtis…

— Merry Clayton

I feel like I have a very unique perspective especially for someone in the hip-hop genre. I'm not afraid to explore it,…

— Hoodie Allen

Motherhood has been a wonderful experience! It's a tough job as you are responsible for a human being, not just for their…

— Konkona Sen Sharma

“You have been adopted. You are God’s beloved sons and daughters. Do you really think God is waiting to attack you on…

— David A. Fiensy

“You don't have in IN you to be like that, Hughie. You had too nice an upbringing. Your mom and dad were…

— Garth Ennis

I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good…

— Philip Zimbardo

I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the…

— Richard Branson

“But the child grows up, and reaches adolescence. He stands on the threshold of life, and the school-bench is left behind him.…

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected…

— Chuck Close

Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in…

— Aristotle

I think the fact that my parents are still, "Hey, great, that's great!" and not, "We need you to do this and…

— Tatiana Maslany

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults…

— Keith Johnstone

Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human…

— Silvano Arieti

The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.

— Ralph Nader

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities…

— Isaac Rosenberg

I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a…

— Amanda Burton

A big part of my upbringing was being with an instrument and kind of figuring myself out through music. So I feel…

— Andy Grammer

“It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing…

— Plato

“We are all the products and victims of our own upbringing, until we reflect, refuse, and rebel.”

— Rawi Hage

I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

— Danny Dyer

My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other…

— J. G. Ballard

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing…

— Mary-Kate Olsen

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

— Mahershala Ali

Family values are valuable to people with a background of family values, relationship values and a valuable upbringings with the understanding of…

— Santanu Mishra

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting…

— Anne Bronte

There are many things in common with my life and my character in 'American Crime.' My upbringing has definitely helped me out…

— Richard Cabral

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

— Graham Norton

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

— Eddie Vedder