Upbringing Quotes · Page 3

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

— Julian Casablancas

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

— James MacArthur

I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.

— Georg Solti

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

— Jim Carrey

One can cheat someone else…but it's impossible to cheat one's own self...

— Santanu Mishra

That was my upbringing: you treat people with respect.

— Joe Root

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

— Lisa Ling

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

— Dan Fogelberg

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

— Eddie Vedder

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

— Ronan Keating

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

— Chris Eubank Sr

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

— Richard Cabral

The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that…

— Christine O'Donnell

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

— Anne Bronte

it annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing,…

— Karl Pilkington

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

— Mahershala Ali

I come from a strong religious background, and I had a very conservative upbringing. So I was nervous, and confused. Here I…

— Nicole Scherzinger

My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not…

— Frank Rich

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

— Natascha McElhone

The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide…

— John Hardon

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

— E. M. Forster

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

— Paul Westerberg

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

— Joaquin Phoenix

My great-grandfather was prime minister of Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing…

— Christopher Plummer

If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will…

— Suzanne La Follette

Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about…

— Terry Pratchett

“I call the violent kind of "upbringing" abuse, not only because children are thus refused the right to dignity and respect as…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

“There seemed no way to make him understand an upbringing in which certain areas of the body were too shameful to be…

— Lisa Kleypas

My religious upbringing was comically strict — even the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner was banned. In our house, no one was allowed…

— Katy Perry

“My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up,…

— Charles Dickens

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only…

— Charles Bukowski

“Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick,…

— Charles Dickens

I had a very traditional upbringing. Family has always been really important to me.

— Gigi Gorgeous

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

— Keira Knightley

It was definitely a challenging upbringing. My parents were by no means perfect.

— David Baddiel

I had a really lovely upbringing. I did a lot of skateboarding down country lanes.

— Ellie Bamber

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

— Roselyn Sanchez

I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

— Peter Jackson

I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.

— Mario Testino

I come from a very good family and my upbringing was good, everyone knows that.

— Tanushree Dutta