Quotes About Upbringing

If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.

Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.

I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.

I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.

I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country

If you come from a solid family structure, it doesn't matter what you go through in your life. You're going to be okay.

The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are so thankful for this upbringing for them.

I was brought up by my father to think that the best thing in life was to be charming, to have a nice smile, always to be liked.

Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up they just taught me to be me.

He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.

I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles.

I grew up with lacrosse in my life because my dad played lacrosse all throughout college, so I grew up with the gear in my house - like the sticks, the helmet.

In youth his mind had been closed, for every prejudice of upbringing was a disinfectant against pagan ideas. He now had an even more satisfying answer to the puzzles of human strivings and destiny. Paganism at its philosophical best would appear a gluttering candle to a man who had followed the Light of the World, and more usually it was idolatry, mixed with license.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

A Connally! Always remember that I raised you to be a Connally!

But though direct moral teaching does much, indirect does more; and the effect my father produced on my character, did not depend solely on what he said or did with that direct object, but also, and still more, on what manner of man he was.

Her mother had fun ideas on how to raise a young lady, and they included handguns and karate as well as dancing and voice lessons.