#upbringing

I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#back #i #never #take #upbringing

We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing. ↗

— River Phoenix

#constantly #countries #different #different countries #feeling

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#activity #been #being #channel #crippled

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#being #believe #came #did #eccentric

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#contempt #mother #over-indulgence #upbringing #home

I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook. ↗

— Bruce Bennett

#am #both #english #europe #even

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy... ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#beliefs #conditioning #cultural-conditioning #culture #eduction

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men. ↗

— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

#manliness #poverty #upbringing #men

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#chance #evil #first #had #i

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#straightforward #suburban #upbringing #very #working