Quotes About Upbringing

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught me and I always trust my parents. They have great values.

I knew nothing but love and devotion when I was growing up. Trust me, it makes everything easier.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

God bless you if you have one child, but I don't think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I don't know what I would do if I had been an only child.

Man is the Child of his Environment

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

I suppose we are all products of our parents' joy and suffering. Their emotions are written into us, as much as the inscriptions made by their genes.

suppose we are all the products of our parents' joy and suffering. Their emotions are written into us, as much as the inscriptions made by their genes.

I demand my kids be respectful, responsible and grateful. And they have to love the Lord with all their hearts.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

We grew up with so much love in our family.

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.