Sentence examples for rich upbringing from inspiring English sources

Benedict also canonized two Spaniards: Francisco Coll y Guitart, who founded an order of Dominicans in the 19th century, and Rafael Arnáiz Barón, who renounced his rich upbringing to dedicate himself to prayer.

It's a game of hoping you will not get caught out in the tale of your not-fabulously-rich upbringing.

He said, 'Revolutions happen and all you have can suddenly vanish, but no one can ever steal your knowledge.'" When Nureyev returned to Russia on a brief visit in 1987, he told the Romankov twins how he had envied their rich cultural upbringing.

My mom provided me a rich spiritual upbringing.

Kimbrough reflected on his rich musical upbringing, producing records for Todd Snider, singing harmony with Kim Richey and looking down from the stage in Telluride with Emmylou Harris and seeing Buddy Miller, Patty Griffin and Robert Plant, there to close the festival as Band of Joy, watching them near the front of what's called the Poser Pit.

She then flies off into a long and rich dissection of his upbringing and career, sharing anecdotes you have never heard and facts you would never have known.

Described by the author as a treatise on education, it is not about schooling but about the upbringing of a rich man's son by a tutor who is given unlimited authority over him.

His upbringing should be rich in material for a memoir: born into the minority Iranian Bahá'í faith, Djalili helped run his family's business in Chelsea, west London, from an early age and, in a 2010 Guardian article, revealed he came close to death when he contracted spinal menigitis at the age of 13. "The first job I ever had was working for my dad," Djalili recalls.

Could it be that in a society focused on individualism, rich in diversity and multiculturalism, children's upbringing is one of the last bastions of intolerant adherence to tradition?

Polybius was the son of Lycortas, a distinguished Achaean statesman, and he received the upbringing considered appropriate for a son of rich landowners.

Because, in reality, my simple upbringing in a simple home was the richest and most life-changing experience I've ever had.