Upbringing Quotes · Page 7

My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the…

— Julianne Moore

I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my…

— Zarin Mehta

I owe my drive and determination to my upbringing, which instilled in me a set of values that make me who I…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

I can't change myself for others as my upbringing has taught me to be nice and cordial with people around me.

— Rituparna Sengupta

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to…

— Pierce Brosnan

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

— Kathy Baker

We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.

— Tony Scott

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran

— Patricia Briggs

In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired…

— E. O. Wilson

There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through…

— Barack Obama

My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally…

— Bayard Rustin

“In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really,…

— Margaret Mitchell

Between the combination of Judeo-Christian religious 'be good be good be good' and Capitalist 'something's wrong with you, buy this' and the…

— Eve Ensler

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

— John Green

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

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

— Pedro Pascal

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

— Aristotle

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

— Chuck Close

At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is…

— BeBe Zahara Benet

It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for…

— Hozier

My upbringing gave me a lot of backbone and prepared me well for showbiz. It could throw anything at me and I…

— Lenny Henry

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if…

— Bradley Cooper

I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets…

— Emilia Fox

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

— Alice Miller

Thanks to my upbringing, I always believed in myself and worked as hard as I could to get where I wanted to…

— Gretchen Carlson

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 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

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

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

— Richard Cabral

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

I had an upbringing to respect other people's privacy and their right to be and choose what they want, and I expect…

— Kristian Nairn

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

— Eddie Vedder

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

— Graham Norton

The harshness of my upbringing did not affect me in the negative. But it has affected many people in the negative.

— Chris Eubank Sr

I think my feet were on the ground, and I had good family around me. It comes down to who you are…

— Ronan Keating