Conservative Upbringing Quotes

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

I've always been conservative. I was born that way.

I grew up in a very white, privileged, old-fashioned society in South Africa and went to a boarding school run by nuns.

Coming from a conservative family from Mangalore, I had hardly watched any movies or television during my student days.

I come from a very conventional and non-political background.

I don't know why my son was born conservative.

My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don't think that's always helpful.

I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught.

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.

Never played a video game. Actually, I try to keep them out of my house.

My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.

I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.

I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area.

I grew up in a conservative household, my parents were small business owners, so it really just was kind of part of who we were.

I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.

I was adopted into an extremely right-wing religious family.

In my mother's household, hit shows like 'The Love Boat' and 'Three's Company' were 'not appropriate for nice lit'tle girls.' So was the prospect of staying up past 8:00 P.M. - and don't even think about talking back.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

In my class was an Annapolis graduate, several engineers, and most recent president of the University of Alabama.These were all small-town people who had good values. The families were tight. The schools reaffirmed the families and reaffirmed the church values that you were taught. I guess it was just one of those swell times to be a part of.

I missed my youth because I was dancing, I didn't do all the crazy stuff. I didn't have boyfriends or anything - the first man I met I married!

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

I'm very traditional, believe it or not. My daughters are not allowed to date until they're at least 16 and I'm going to make it 18 for the next one.

My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.