Quotes tagged ‘Upbringing’

“Between your rotten genes and your truly horrific upbringing, you still somehow ended up a good person.”

— Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin, Andrew Goldberg, Matthew MacDell, Andrew Rannells, imdb.com

“I’ve never had a garden. We never grew up like that. I don’t particularly mind, but I think there is something in growing up in concrete and not understanding putting fingers in soil, growing things, foundation.”

— Michaela Coel, vulture.com

“When you are young and you have a sort of close family life and stuff, it helps you to be centered for later. If you don't have a centered upbringing, I think it is much more difficult.”

— Mick Jagger, the-talks.com

“I mean we all did excessive things and I had a lot of unstable moments as I’m sure everyone does in their life. Maybe it helped me that I had a very centered upbringing.”

— Mick Jagger, the-talks.com

“Oh, so you think darkness is your ally? But you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man, by then to me it was only blinding. The shadows betray you because they belong to me.”

— Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Bane, Tom Hardy, imdb.com

“It annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing.”

— Karl Pilkington, amazon.com

“Can a person ever be free from their upbringing?”

— Hank Green, youtube.com