Upbringing Quotes - Page 6

• My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

  Denise Mina

  Class, Parent, Odd

  "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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• Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear.

  Douglas Coupland

  Giving, Envy, Perspective

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• Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

  Sam Palladio

  Kind, Surfer, Celtic

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

  Nancy Springer

  Thinking, Names, Enough

  Nancy Springer (2008). “The Case of the Left-Handed Lady: An Enola Holmes Mystery”, p.92, Penguin

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• Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran

  Patricia Briggs

  Choices, Identity, Heritage

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• Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.

  Richard Dawkins

  Jesus, Departed, Scripture

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.284, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.

  Gunter Brus

  Boys, Echoes, Experts

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• Idea that all the beats are wildly liberal and progressive is ridiculous. You have people thinking for themselves and having certain affinities because of their upbringing and who their family are, their own people who were close to them who fought in these wars and so on. It's complicated. But they had that ability to continue the conversation.

  Anne Waldman

  War, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.

  Mario Bunge

  Religious, Ideas, Painful

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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

  Luke Ford

  Sin

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• 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.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Children, Father

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

  Morgan Freeman

  Choices, Acting, Not Sure

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jesse McCartney

  Stars, Inspiration, Rocks

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

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Unconventional

  "You must be Joaquin". Interview with Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2003.

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• Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.

  Bruce Feiler

  Children, Kids, Order

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• I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.

  Chaka Khan

  Morning, Men, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Fiona Shaw

  Writing, Stories, Ireland

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust's heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read.

  Allan Massie

  Mother, Book, Son

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

  Sharon Horgan

  Rebel, Felt

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• During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

  Bianca Jagger

  Divorce, Years, Parent

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• I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didnt even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.

  James Maslow

  School, People, Groups

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• The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'

  Antonin Scalia

  Children, Men, Rights

  "Troxel v. Granville". "A Year at the Supreme Court". Book by Neal Devins and Davison M. Douglas, 2004.

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

  Dan Fogelberg

  Real, Thinking, Made

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• I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.

  Neon Hitch

  Artist, Free Spirit, Spirit

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• Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. Many 'well-adjusted' adults are bitter, uncreative, frightened, unimaginative, and rather hostile people. Instead of assuming they were born that way, or that that's what being an adult entails, we might consider them as people damaged by their education and upbringing.

  Keith Johnstone

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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