My Upbringing Quotes
52 quotes by 48 authors
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My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.
— Jim Carrey
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I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they…
— Amy Chua
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On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for…
— Madonna Ciccone
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was…
— Pete Townshend
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Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.
— Melissa Gilbert
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Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
— Eddie Vedder
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The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.
— Lucinda Williams
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A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was…
— Elfriede Jelinek
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You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made…
— Thomas Keneally
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Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records.…
— Jesse McCartney
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My upbringing gave me a strong will, a mental aggressiveness in what I wanted to achieve.
— Paul Tergat
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
— Fiona Shaw
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard
— Dan Fogelberg
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I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.
— Neon Hitch
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The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock…
— Tom Wopat
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I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could…
— Rachel Boston
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Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.
— John McGahern
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People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally…
— Anne M. Mulcahy
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I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.
— Mary-Kate Olsen
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