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Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a massive contrast to my upbringing. — David A.R. White

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose. — Anselm Kiefer

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular. — Sharon Horgan

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. — V.S. Pritchett

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

Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it. — Lois Greiman

I was so determined not to pass on to my children what I perceived to be the faults of my upbringing. — Roger Lloyd-Pack

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing. — David Rockefeller

But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions. — Simone De Beauvoir

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

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

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me. — Bradley Cooper

You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose. — Felix Dennis

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents. — Christopher Paolini

I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man's talents than the upbringing of his son. — Conn Iggulden

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one. — Plato

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

When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me. — Lyle Lovett

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment. — Lisa Ling

Self-esteem wasn't the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal. — Julia A. Boyd

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear. — W. H. Auden

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

The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are so thankful for this upbringing for them. — Tim Hudson

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it. — Brigitte Bardot

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical. — Tom Selleck

The whole upbringing was interesting because we grew up Orthodox Jews all the way until we were teenagers. — Benny Fine

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

My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it. — Doc Brown

He nurtured my heart back to beauty so I nurtured his upbringing to be great. — Nikki Rowe

We are all the products and victims of our own upbringing, until we reflect, refuse, and rebel. — Rawi Hage

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person. — Eric Schlosser

Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being. — Silvano Arieti

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

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

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing. — Abigail Washburn

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life."
Patricia Briggs. — Demetra Angelis Foustanellas

My upbringing gave me a strong will, a mental aggressiveness in what I wanted to achieve. — Paul Tergat

A child's growth is defined entirely by the adult that raises him. — Naoki Urasawa

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

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

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods. — Kathy Baker

Your attitude toward life is more important than environment, upbringing, and even your education. So always have a happy positive attitude. — Debasish Mridha

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

I told myself that I'd had life too easy, conditioned by an upbringing where fear of change was disguised as caution. — Ingrid Betancourt

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does. — Anton Chekhov

Exercise is great for endorphins, and I come from a very outdoorsy upbringing, so that means a lot to me. — Rose McIver

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

I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing — Tony Benn

I make no bones about it, I'm a product of my upbringing and of the time I was brought up, so I'm not going to pretend not to be. — David Davis

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural. — Amber Heard

My upbringing involves individuals who helped me along the way. I don't think I would be here today without that support. — Dwyane Wade

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

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive. — Paz De La Huerta

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why. — Amy Chua

I had a very modest upbringing. — Balthazar Getty

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

India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing. — Narendra Modi

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature. — Brandon Sanderson

I had a very difficult upbringing. — Luke Evans

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment). — Stephen Covey

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing. — James MacArthur

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing. — Edward Norton

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could. — Jodie Sweetin

In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment. — Ronnie Musgrove

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

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

I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional ... it's probably my Celtic upbringing. — Pierce Brosnan

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing. — John Caudwell

My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails. — Kristen Stewart

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing. — Michael Lewis

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. — John Stamos

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

The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden. — Lauren Bacall

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible. — T.H. White

I think I've actually had a pretty standard upbringing. My parents are really normal, so I've always had them around to keep me grounded. — Sophie Lowe

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. — Ilya Ehrenburg

Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him. — Nancy Springer

My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid. — Kelvin Yu

My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing. — Steve Breen

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad. — Steve Garvey

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

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto. — Eddie Vedder

I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing. — Joaquin Phoenix

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist. — Robert Mankoff

We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances. — Tony Scott

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning. — Elie Wiesel

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing. — Muhammad

But at a certain point in our lives, we cannot passively allow our upbringing to define us. We must choose it or choose other. — Jon Skovron

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way. — Gillian Flynn

Each Christian comes from a different background, upbringing, lineage, and environment. But in Christ we are unified. — Elizabeth George

I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry. — Andrea Bocelli

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

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

Thanks to my upbringing, I always believed in myself and worked as hard as I could to get where I wanted to be. Nothing was ever handed to me. — Gretchen Carlson

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. — Billy Bragg

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way. — James Taylor

Grace is thoughtful. It considers a back-story, an upbringing, the entire person, and not just a tiny single slice of their life. — J.S. Park

As a rule children of tough and imperious parents sticking to authoritarian method of upbringing have a victim complex — Sunday Adelaja

I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on. — Vanessa Hudgens