Upbringing Quotes - Page 2

• 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 reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

  Pete Townshend

  Jobs, Gun, Men

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• 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.

  Mira Sorvino

  Christian, Queens, Kissing

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• Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years.

  John B. Watson

  Artist, Years, Doctors

  "Behaviorism". Book by John B. Watson (p.82), 1930.

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• To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

  Josh Billings

  Family, Children, Dad

  Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

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• There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Self, Fake, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many children can see through flattery and may even dismiss an adult who heaps on praise as a poor source of support-one who is not very believable.

  Lilian Katz

  Education, Children, Self Esteem

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• My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere.

  Jessica Alba

  Growing Up, Latin, Race

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• The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing.

  Christine O'Donnell

  America, People, Elements

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• 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 that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doctrine, Needs

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• 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

  Good Upbringing, Polite, Persons

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.50, Macmillan

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• Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Lonely, Home, Skins

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.59, Grove Press

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• Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Children, Order, Discipline

  Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.348, Columbia University Press

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

  John McGahern

  Gratitude, Church

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

  Amber Heard

  Austin, Grew Up, Grew

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• 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

  Gypsy, Remember, Grew Up

  "Questions and answers with Vanessa Hudgens". Interview with Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. August 21, 2013.

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• You have to realise that I am the third out of six children, and I am raised with very strong core values and a very strong upbringing. I always put myself in other people's shoes.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Strong, Children, Shoes

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• Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral insufficient. I'm trying to give you back your brain, which they took away from you in schools and in your upbringing. I'm trying to show you how the world works. So if you want a better world, you have to get up off your ass and make it better

  Jacque Fresco

  School, Stupid People, Men

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• Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Brother, Perspective, Different

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide for the mental, moral and social upbringing of their offspring.

  John Hardon

  Children, Law, World

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• When you start paying attention to diversity, you notice it (and notice its absence!). And based on the culture of your upbringing and the culture of your organization, you may or may not be primed to think consciously about innovation.

  David Livermore

  Thinking, Organization, Diversity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If you have a problem at that level where there is hatred, prejudice, and anger, that has nothing to do with the other person. What is wrong with you that you are feeling that way? Look at yourself. Quite often it is their upbringing or their parent's problems. You got to get free. At some point you have to take responsibility for your actions.

  KT Tunstall

  Responsibility, Hatred, Feelings

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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

  Rose McIver

  Mean, Exercise, Endorphins

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• They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

  H. L. Mencken

  Children, Freedom, Taken

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• Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

  Mahershala Ali

  Unique, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Imperfect Things, Imperfect, Rich

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