Upbringing Quotes · Page 9

I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.

— Neon Hitch

I was raised on a reservation, went to public school. It's a very normal, sort of working-class upbringing in one way, and…

— Lily Gladstone

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.

— Sharon Horgan

I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and…

— Aaron Paul

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

— Amy Chua

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your…

— Grayson Perry

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

— Anthony Kiedis

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took…

— Sky Ferreira

Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that…

— Peter Atkins

I had quite a chaotic home life, it wasn't stable, my diet wasn't great. I was never an overweight child, but I…

— Joe Wicks

What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for…

— Anthony Scaramucci

A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The…

— Mario Bunge

You see, for the most part it was a normal upbringing. Sure, there was the Nobel Peace award; sure, there were people…

— Yolanda King

Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work.…

— Patricia Rozema

I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people…

— James Maslow

The beauty in the story is at one with suffering. That is also part of our upbringing - we don't think there…

— Joan Chen

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

— Ilya Ehrenburg

My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles,…

— Cheech Marin

It's the upbringing at home. You can have education abroad, the best of things, but you can be a horrible human being.

— Jisshu Sengupta

I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

— Brian Molko

“They're proud of their own excellent upbringing... and by this they mean that they have all learned to speak, behave and think…

— Pentti Holappa

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your…

— Kevin Macdonald

I would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I've actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I'm…

— Taron Egerton

I had a lot of teachers. When I think about my upbringing I feel like the most fortunate person. It was a…

— Bill Ward

Abuses are diversified, and not necessarily visible to every one accept the one who faces it, but have no words to express…

— Santanu Mishra

One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing…

— Lyn Nofziger

I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

— Karen Armstrong

Music was a big part of my upbringing. My mum and my grandma are very passionate about music.

— Jarome Iginla

I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an…

— Tatiana Maslany

My father was Catholic, my mom Baptist, so we were raised Baptist but had a lot of Catholic upbringing: fish on Fridays,…

— Dennis Haysbert

Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my…

— Viggo Mortensen

I had a different upbringing - my dad worked three jobs. You know, it wasn't as easy as they had it.

— Robert Davi

What it depends on is someone's upbringing and the traditions and that is how you decide if you are Jewish or not.

— Andrzej Duda

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far…

— Joshua Jackson

I would not have had the same personal commitment to Alzheimer's disease if it had not been for my mother and my…

— Vivek Ramaswamy

I have acted in all four film industries in the South. I speak all four languages because of my upbringing in various…

— Priyamani

I learned you work for what you get, and I feel sorry for people who haven't had that upbringing.

— John C. Bogle

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in…

— Denise Mina

When I was younger, I used to think that my unconventional upbringing was a weakness, but over the past few years, I've…

— Susan Fowler

My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical…

— Phillipa Soo