Upbringing Quotes
215 quotes by 200 authors
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved…
— Kevin Bacon
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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
— Brigitte Bardot
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My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I…
— Drew Barrymore
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I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.
— Andrea Bocelli
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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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Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.
— Julian Casablancas
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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
— Anton Chekhov
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A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
— Amy Chua
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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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I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.
— Tori Amos
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a…
— John Stamos
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly…
— Joseph Epstein
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I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.
— Georg Solti
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Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.
— Silvano Arieti
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Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any…
— Steven Pinker
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Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
— Stephen Covey
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I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability, support - but…
— Michael Kirby
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Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do
— Cole Porter
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It isn't that some gay will get some rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents will lose the…
— Michele Bachmann
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