Upbringing Quotes

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

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 that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

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 outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.

In the time between when you first read a script and are offered the role and the time when you begin to shoot, I really love putting in the time and work on that and getting a solid backstory to a character and researching all that I can about what that person does for a vocation or their upbringing or where they're from.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

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 lot of good life.

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

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

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

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 the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

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 part in which way we sway.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

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. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.

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

I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.

I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.