Quotes About Upbringing

My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.

People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

her father had built from ax-hewn planks thatched with bamboo and grass. The floor was dirt, but it was clean. Her mother, Foua, sprinkled it regularly with

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

All the conflicts about our upbringing, about not pampering children, about the food—about everything, absolutely everything—might have taken a different turn if we'd remained open and on friendly terms instead of always seeing the worst side.

We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.

My parents, teachers, and the culture I grew up in showed me a drawer in which to stuff my merciful nature, because mercy made me look vulnerable and foolish, and it made me less productive.

Dread was my governess growing up.

She wished she had had a mother. Well, she had had a mother, but she wished she'd had one who had taught her how to get along in the world better.

Some kids are raised in a mess, Ada said, and they say, 'When I'm on my own, I'll be neater than God.' Others are raised in a mess and they say, 'Life is a mess, looks like, and that's just the way it is.' It's got nothing to do with their upbringing.

She had been, in short, the inevitable result of everything she had been raised to be, frothy and naïve, a girl with barely a notion of her own universe, its rights and its monstrous wrongs.

My father went on a legendary drinking binge. My mother went to church every single day. It was all booze and God, booze and God, booze and God.

He said his prayers just in case his parents had been wrong about God all those years.

After all, one doesn't choose his culture nearly as much as one trips and falls into it.

Even if he doesn't eat, he knows the cookies. I'll bet his mother stuffed him full as a kid. (Tory) Not really. My mom wasn't the Betty Crocker kind. (Acheron) (Not unless it involved napalm or plagues.)

Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.

My name is Nick Gautier and this is the story of my life. First off, get the name right. It's pronounced Go-shay not Go-tee-ay or Goat-chay (that has an extra H in it and as my mom says we're so poor we couldn't afford the extra letter). I'm not some fancy French fashion designer. I'm just a regular kid… well as regular as someone with a stripper for a mother and a career felon for a father can be.

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

How did they manage to raise their children in righteousness? The principles become part of their lives, and when it becomes part of their life, it isn't difficult to do.

The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

I am a person who grew up with two wonderful parents and a wonderful family and a person who has done well in life.