Upbringing Quotes

215 quotes by 200 authors

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.… — Keith Johnstone
In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has… — Paul Elie
It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and so on...But mathematical… — Paul Dirac
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
I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend… — Helen Prejean
They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of… — H. L. Mencken
I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could. — Jodi Sweetin
Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s. — Maxwell Caulfield
Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing. — Joseph Stefano
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
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
I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family. — Danny Dyer
I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess. — Peter Jackson
Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church. — John McGahern
Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my… — James Nesbitt
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
The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't… — Vijay Mallya
I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major… — Kathy Najimy
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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