Upbringing Quotes · Page 6

My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

— Charlie Trotter

Thanks to my upbringing, I lead a disciplined life, which is very important.

— Neha Dhupia

“No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

— Tom Selleck

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

— Amber Heard

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

— Jhumpa Lahiri

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing

— Tony Benn

From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

“Self-esteem wasn't the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal.”

— Julia A. Boyd

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

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if…

— Bradley Cooper

I was born in a temple to a priest father, in a place like Benaras. So, my upbringing has been influenced by…

— Ravi Kishan

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

— Julianne Moore

India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.

— Narendra Modi

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

— John Green

I'm so grateful to my parents for my upbringing and for all of the opportunities that I was provided with, but I…

— Ivanka Trump

We all bear within us the potentiality for every kind of passion, every fate, every way of life. Nothing human is alien…

— Max Reinhardt

What le Carré is so good at is unpicking something very specific about Englishness. That is almost part of why I think…

— Tom Hiddleston

I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a…

— Ric Roman Waugh

By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a…

— Eugenio Maria de Hostos

My parents came from an environment where everyone knew that the way to be successful was to get a great education, and…

— Michelle Rhee

I was brought up in a way that was based purely on the senses. Everything in my upbringing was a reaction to…

— Stella McCartney

I had a tremendous upbringing and foundation but as others like me have experienced, when you go to college, mom and dad…

— Aaron Kampman

On one hand, prostitutes don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places…

— Michael Glawogger

Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market … What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral…

— Jacque Fresco

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not…

— Anna Ford

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no…

— Douglas Coupland

“[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact, far wiser than most other such…

— Christine de Pizan

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

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'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.

— Andrew Solomon

My upbringing in Rampur has contributed a lot to what I am today.

— Raza Murad

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

— Mila Kunis

I spent my whole upbringing in sporting camps. I didn't do cotillion.

— Charlotte Flair

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I've had the hardest upbringing of any fighter in England.

— Chris Eubank Jr

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

— Georg Solti

I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.

— Xander Schauffele