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She started out with the way Nellie started her life. Missouri is where she grew up. She had a hard childhood and upbringing that we didn't realize. Nellie had a fascinating life.

Beth Miller

It takes a great deal of work to raise all of the children, on each level. Education and upbringing plays a large role, but the most important thing is love and a big heart.

Vladimir Chernenko

It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.

Ian McKellen

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Ilya Ehrenburg

I didn't play practical jokes at home. I had a strict upbringing, which is part of my rebellion. I was raised Catholic and went to parochial school, which is why priests and nuns appear in my movies a lot, and I don't have very much nice to say about them.

George A. Romero

You always have to remember your place. You can be close to the person, but you must know who you are and who he is. It's a fine balance. A delicate balance. It depends on your upbringing.

Viktor Sukhodrev

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

I think there's a lot of Samoans in professional football because it's closely related to a family atmosphere and the upbringing that a lot of Samoans have.

Troy Polamalu

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

On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.

Julian Lennon

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

Brad works in a really different way because his craft is very different. His upbringing is very different. Brad came up through film and he was like, what, 10 when he did Thelma and Louise? He came up through film, so he has a whole different way of working. What I loved about Brad-and a lot of people won't do this-Brad is extremely generous. He'll try anything.

Marcia Gay Harden

I am not the best girlfriend or lawyer or the reporter. I am the drama-queen type. You know. So it is somehow in my style, in my upbringing, in the way I look: I need to be the dramatic one.

Joan Chen

Black mothers are deciding to stay home because they want to be there when their children come home after school. They want to take a hands-on approach to their children's upbringing. Some black stay-at-home mothers are also home-schooling because they are tired of low academic achievement and racism of all sorts in the schools.

Jennifer James

Considering my upbringing and what I saw around me everyday, I can't deny that I didn't have some kind of an advantage, ... But at the same time I'd be lying if I said I've never felt any pressure.

Alejandro Fernandez

They had a tremendous upbringing at home. They were already good kids; true teammates, not only in basketball, but whatever sport they played.

Dan Spellman

I had the archetypal French bucolic upbringing, in a peasant village in deepest Burgundy.

Raymond Blanc

To have had a religious upbringing at least assures that in your own mind you are a Jew first, and the object of other people's dislike second.

John Gross

I didn't have to bury myself in drugs and alcohol and all of that, and I think a lot of that had to do with my strong upbringing.

Angela Cartwright

We're very different people, but we both speak Spanish, we have a Catholic upbringing and come from a similar culture. It blends into a peaceful life.

Grace Villarreal

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Joe Orton

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Joe Orton

I think that sometimes the whole upbringing thing, people want to make a story out of it.

Marshall Faulk

We've been able to devote more resources to him because of that, but he has not had a particularly privileged upbringing. I was a single parent for most of his life. It's not like he had tutors and parents who could sit around and help him.

Susan Mitchell

My upbringing kept me on a straight path.

Ralph Molina

When the committee started looking at Ellen's contributions, especially the Adopt-a-Tree program, the committee began to look at her upbringing. They then realized what a great impact her mother, Jane had made on her and the many contributions she had made for the community as well.

Emilie Mims