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The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing. -- Muhammad
My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian. -- Jim Carrey
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
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door. -- Paul Muldoon
I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money. -- Cat Stevens
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters. -- Joaquin Phoenix
Everything depends on upbringing. -- Leo Tolstoy
Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing -- Jacquie Phelan
If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. --
Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there. -- Joshua Jackson
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
Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind. -- Shinichi Suzuki
You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience. -- David Carson
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
If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese. -- Mike Schmidt
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me. -- Bayard Rustin
If you had a free society you couldn't get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in ones children. They would say; There must be many other ways of solving problems other then killing people. -- Jacque Fresco
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
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
I think the ultimate challenge is to have some kind of style and grace, even though you haven't got money, or standing in society, or formal education. I had a very middle, lower-middle class sort of upbringing, but I identify with people who've had, at some point in their lives to struggle to survive. It adds another color to your character. -- Madonna Ciccone
I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural. -- Amber Heard
My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents. -- Keira Knightley
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. -- James Hillman
With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad. -- Steve Garvey
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
Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever. -- Anderson Cooper
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 mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person. -- Ellie Goulding
I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you. -- Karisma Kapoor
At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you. -- Ben Okri
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
We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious. -- Malcolm Gladwell
How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. -- Anne Frank
My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully. -- Tatiana Maslany
I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option. -- Eddie Vedder
I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup. -- Rachel Nichols
If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life. -- Henrik Fisker
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now. -- Amy Chua
Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in any case, I never became a talkative person. As an adult, I am not always comfortable in social gatherings with small talk. I must have inherited my father's gentle nature. -- Charles K. Kao
If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school kids. Not just reminded. Told... I was made to believe it wasn't right. If I went a little bit too off - slap! It was Dad's upbringing and it was Victorian, and that's the way he was. -- John Galliano
So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I made a personal decision when I was very young. I enjoy going to church without my parents. On Sunday mornings, I want to go. Bible studies on Wednesdays... I have a relationship - not just through my parents. -- AJ Michalka
I had a very modest upbringing. -- Balthazar Getty
I had a very difficult upbringing. -- Luke Evans
I really did have a very egalitarian upbringing. -- Michael Moorcock
My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing. -- James MacArthur
My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. -- Billy Bragg
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing -- Jhumpa Lahiri
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical -- Tom Selleck
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical. -- Tom Selleck
I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing -- Tony Benn
The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing. -- David Rockefeller
We are such a product of our upbringing and environment. -- Lisa Ling
I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing. -- Edward Norton
When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing. -- Michelle Branch
I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing. -- Joaquin Phoenix
I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing. -- Kevin Costner
I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith. -- Andrew Solomon
My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing. -- Charlie Trotter
My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing. -- Charlie Trotter
I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual. -- Luke Ford
I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland. -- Fiona Shaw
A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading, -- Jhumpa Lahiri
A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess. -- Peter Jackson
My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me. -- Kevin Hart
Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child. -- Sylvia Pankhurst
He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing. -- Michael Lewis
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite. -- Graham Swift
My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard. -- Dan Fogelberg
Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church. -- John McGahern
My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard -- Dan Fogelberg
I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices. -- Morgan Freeman
I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing. -- Georg Solti
My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him. -- Anthony Kiedis
Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment). -- Stephen Covey
I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru. -- Mario Testino
Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination. -- Barack Obama
Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training. -- Melissa Gilbert
A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why. -- Amy Chua
Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran -- Patricia Briggs
In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment. -- Ronnie Musgrove
I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing. -- Mila Kunis
Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it. -- Lois Greiman
My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it. -- Doc Brown
I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing. -- Ralph Nader
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear. -- W. H. Auden
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 upbringing gave me a strong will, a mental aggressiveness in what I wanted to achieve. -- Paul Tergat
Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him. -- Nancy Springer
The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents. -- Christopher Paolini
I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way. -- James Taylor
I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular. -- Sharon Horgan
I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive. -- Paz de la Huerta
By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person. -- Eric Schlosser
I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world. -- Mary-Kate Olsen
Each Christian comes from a different background, upbringing, lineage, and environment. But in Christ we are unified. -- Elizabeth George
What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world? -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. -- Ilya Ehrenburg
The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me. -- Lucinda Williams
I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am. -- Peter Dinklage
I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life. -- Roselyn Sanchez
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. -- V. S. Pritchett
India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing. -- Narendra Modi
Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do -- Cole Porter
Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing. -- Joseph Stefano
the virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages. -- Marsden Hartley
I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing. -- Charlie Day
I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing. -- Abigail Washburn
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning. -- Elie Wiesel
Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose. -- Anselm Kiefer
I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist. -- Neon Hitch
Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto. -- Eddie Vedder
Exercise is great for endorphins, and I come from a very outdoorsy upbringing, so that means a lot to me. -- Rose McIver
I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving. -- Tori Amos
I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink. -- Helene Aylon
Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being. -- Vissarion Belinsky
I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family. -- Danny Dyer
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

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