Upbringing Quotes

215 quotes by 200 authors

I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox,… — Rachel Nichols
I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything. — Graham Norton
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just… — Joaquin Phoenix
The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing. — David Rockefeller
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker… — Bayard Rustin
I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life. — Roselyn Sanchez
By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person. — Eric Schlosser
I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the… — Cat Stevens
I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way. — James Taylor
As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no… — Pete Townshend
My upbringing involves individuals who helped me along the way. I don't think I would be here today without that support. — Dwyane Wade
In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of… — E. O. Wilson
My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense. — Trisha Yearwood
If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children. — Gordon B. Hinckley
He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing. — Michael Lewis
Everything depends on upbringing. — Leo Tolstoy
The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets… — Karl Marx
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd… — Douglas Coupland
Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among… — Jon Krakauer

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