Upbringing Quotes · Page 8

What's helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might…

— Carlos Tevez

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

— Charlie Day

I was lucky because my upbringing was so eccentric. It has helped me cope with unreal situations.

— Sophie Dahl

We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't…

— River Phoenix

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

— Kemi Badenoch

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

— Sonia Gandhi

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

My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good…

— Hillary Clinton

I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out…

— Michael Eklund

I didn't really have a religious upbringing in my life, which was tough at times because I was searching for some kind…

— Ashley Roberts

I grew up with a very grounded experience being in the country, being around a lot of nature, and having just very…

— Doechii

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We…

— Joaquin Phoenix

Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to…

— Paul Westerberg

I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres…

— E. M. Forster

My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny…

— Natascha McElhone

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

— Ronnie Musgrove

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

— Vikram Bhatt

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

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

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

— Tom Wopat

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

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

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

— Jim Ross

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

— Robert Mankoff

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

— Al Jarreau

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

— Anton Corbijn

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

— Joe Wicks

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

— Joseph Stefano

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

— Jaz Sinclair

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

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

— Jeffrey Archer

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

— Hozier

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

— Khaled Hosseini