Leslie Jordan Quotes

But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.

I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to.

You can raise her up a lady but there's one thing you just can't avoid.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

There'll always be that prep in me that I can't seem to get rid of.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

I went to a military school, so I'm always talking like 'Yes, sir,' or 'No, ma'am.' I was doing that even before military school, so I've always had it, I guess.

There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

I don't care where you went to school. There - have I made your day? No? All right, I'll go further: I also don't care what your dad did for a living or how your mum voted. Nor do I mind whether you ate your tea in front of the telly, dinner at the kitchen table, or supper in the dining room.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.

One of the depressing things one realizes as one gets older is how much of one's tastes and attitudes are simply products of economic circumstance at the time.

I believe we are more a product of our homes than of any other single influence.

A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you.

I had that extroverted energy, and I always involved myself in quite adult conversations. My mum never hid us from that. There was never a kids' table; we were never treated as kids, per se, because I don't think she believes in that.

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.