Top 667 Upbringing Quotes & Sayings

I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.

I had a very rough upbringing.

Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers were the key parent in the upbringing of the next generation, because moral training, not emotional sensitivity, was thought to be central to successful child-rearing. Mothers were thought to corrupt their little ones with too much affection and not enough stern training.

A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.

I had a very modest upbringing.

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

That was my upbringing: you treat people with respect.

The idea that someone is going to write me, and I'm not going to answer - I was just raised not to do that. We are the result of our upbringing, and my upbringing was very much to meet obligations... You just didn't let things go.

I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.

I've come from a grounded family and had a good upbringing.

I've had an incredible upbringing, but it was quite chaotic.

Lucha libre culture was part of my wrestling upbringing. I'm Filipino, so it wasn't a part of my normal upbringing, but it's what gave me my start. I get a lot of my technical and high-flying wrestling from that.

I really did have a very egalitarian upbringing.

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

Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.

My upbringing was healthy and terrific.

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.

My upbringing in Rampur has contributed a lot to what I am today.

I do have a somewhat unique upbringing.

We all have baggage from our upbringing! That's life!

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

I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military.

Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

We've had a humble upbringing. You know, my father came through as a political refugee; my mother comes from a hard-working-farmers family. We've had humble upbringing.

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

I had a normal, nice upbringing in Cardiff.

My upbringing wasn't overly comfortable.

I had a good upbringing.

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

Everything depends on upbringing.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

Actually, competitiveness was never part of our upbringing.

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing

I was very blue collar, and I had a great upbringing.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

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

My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

There was a stage when I was a little embarrassed about my Asian upbringing.

My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as well, and God plays a big role in my upbringing and my life.

I learned that my upbringing was rough, but there's other people out there where their upbringing is even worse than mine. It just gives you even more of a reason to want to help.

Fighting comes down to who you are as a person. With B.J. Penn, he has no problems, not a hard upbringing and came up with money or whatever and he's just a fighter, he enjoys the fight and he refined his skills so I don't think it necessarily has to be a rough upbringing for guys to be great fighters.

My upbringing as a child was very atypical.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

My upbringing saved me.

I came from a very military, Christian, Southern upbringing.

Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.

Singing has been part of my upbringing.

We had a very strict upbringing.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an important and legitimate enterprise. What that meant was sitting around the dinner table from a really early age with people from all different backgrounds who believed in God. When I was reporting in the wake of September 11th in Iraq and elsewhere, I felt I had the capacity to talk to people whose beliefs might sound outlandish to more secular journalists. I felt like I could be a translator between those two worlds.

I've been very lucky - I don't come from a privileged upbringing.

I had a very difficult upbringing.

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.