81 Quotes About Upbringing

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

As a rule children of tough and imperious parents sticking to authoritarian method of upbringing have a victim complex

We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both without batting an eyelash. The great teachers. The great emancipators. My God. I can't even sit down to lunch with a man any more and hold up my end of a decent conversation. I either get so bored or so goddamn preachy that if the son of a bitch had any sense, he'd break his chair over my head

I’ve always known my circumstances were far, far from the worst, but I truly believe that just the slightest misalignment in our upbringings can have such a dramatic knock-on effect on our lives.

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

Hypocrisy is something I have learned saturates every level of our society. I see it more with my old age than I did then. At some stage I started questioning everything that I was being taught and turned against various aspects of my upbringing. Maybe I had my reasons and maybe I needed new ways to cope.

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

Person's behavior reflects nothing but the mirror of an aura he/she brought up in. Never doubt their integrity because of their insecurities.

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