Upbringing Quotes · Page 12

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

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

— Abigail Washburn

Where I come from, the family, upbringing, whatever I have seen in life, I know for sure that nothing is permanent.

— Pratik Gandhi

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

— Vissarion Belinsky

I loved my parents. There were never any rows. It was a sort of artistic, bohemian upbringing.

— Vic Reeves

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

I never played a rich man, I never played a prince. And to play a sailor or longshoreman you had to make…

— Gene Kelly

We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good…

— John Lithgow

“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

Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a…

— Richard Dawkins

“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

I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said…

— Olivia Newton-John

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

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

— Bayard Rustin

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

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

— Becky Hammon

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

— Tom Wopat

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

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

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

— Hugh Dennis

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

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

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

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

— Ronnie Musgrove

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

— Diane Birch

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

— Kemi Badenoch

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

— Suzanne Wright

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

— Anthony Kiedis

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

— Sonia Gandhi

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Ralph Nader

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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

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