Naomi Alderman Quotes

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

My upbringing saved me.

My parents have a great role in inculcating values in me.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

My values stemmed from the family. Anything I have achieved in life has been rooted in my upbringing.

I was raised in a very, very loving household. I had quite unusual parents, and my father has always been my hero.

We have really good parents, and even though they broke up when we were little, we were still raised by two people who had really good ethics. They were never going to let us turn into Paris Hilton. I think that it wasn't really an option to become spoiled brats.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

My parents made us do everything, try everything.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and with what little we had, they were able to provide an education for their children.