upbringing quotes

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: ‚You know there’s no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won’t.‘ I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

My parents weren’t actors or studio executives.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that’s – those are humbling times, you know?

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago – by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

I come from Detroit where it’s rough and I’m not a smooth talker.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

I grew up in a funny way.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I’m informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I’m a very ardent patriot.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

I grew up cursing a lot.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.