Quotes About Behavior

You can't expect a child not to become a product of his environment. If you're a drinker, you'll raise a drunk. If you're a single mother, traipsing men in and out of your bedroom in front of your girl child - mark my words, in time she'll claim a corner and charge money for what you gave away for free. Kings and queens raise princes and princesses. That's just the way it is.

don't start no sh wont be no it

One day somebody asked Herr K. if there was a God. Herr K. replied: "I suggest that you ask yourself whether the answer would effect your behavior. If your behavior would remain unchanged, then we can drop the question. If it would change, then I can at least be of assistance to you by telling you that you have already decided: you need a God.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.

Not out of right practice comes right thinking, but out of right thinking comes right practice. It matters enormously what you think. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.

You know men. You confuse 'em, they panic. Much like possum.

by age seven, many of the habits that will help kids manage their money are already set.

What's gotten into him?" "Five-Thirty," I called back. "I didn't ask the time," she called. "Get that dog out of there, and fill that hole in.

Amount of time it takes for a dog to "do its business" is directly proportional to outside temperature + suitability of owner's outerwear.

Do you think that, by nature, human beings are forgiving?" "I think that, by nature, human beings are self-protective," said Hanratty. "If it is in their interest to be forgiving, then they are. If not, then they are vengeful. I am fairly certain that being forgiving is not an innate virtue.

Anything cruel I do is mental, not physical

One nurse told me to say please when I asked her to do something. She should consider herself luck to be in one piece today.

What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get their own back; thus many children punish their parents by acting in ways distressing to them.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

emotional abuse is much more than verbal abuse. Emotional abuse can be defined as any nonphysical behavior that is designed to control, intimidate, subjugate, demean, punish, or isolate another person through the use of degradation, humiliation, or fear.

The truth is, few people put up with emotional abuse as an adult unless they were abused as a child. And nearly every person who becomes emotionally abusive has a history of such abuse in childhood.

You ever use that mouth for something besides sassing?

Heather didn't understand why Riley kept putting the animal in clothes, either. The practice only made him look crazier, but then again, she'd never been a big proponent of anthropomorphism. To her, animals were just that, nothing more, but nothing less, either.

The one behavior that talented people seldom tolerate for long is disrespect.

Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression.

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Trump likes to say he's a wartime president. Well, he needs to step up and act like it.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

Any dog owner knows that Pavlov's dog wouldn't have salivated when he heard the bell ring. He would have learned to ring the bell when he was hungry.