Quotes About Upbringing

I feel lucky for my upbringing and tremendous adversity, which made me so successful, now I like to devote my life to improve lives of others, who are facing adversity every day.

A father gives his child nothing better than a good education

It is not your fault you believe what your parents tell you. It is theirs for telling you unbelievable things. -- ME

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

Children are God's homework assignment to parents. We are commissioned to love, teach and train them up for successful adulthood.

Fathers should display more kindness than other men their children are around. This is what their kids are longing to experience (Proverbs 19:22). Mothers should have words of kindness flowing from their lips (Proverbs 31:26).

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

A person today who seems to have a great sense of self-esteem has his or her childhood days to thank for it.

If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine.

Your level of self-confidence is not something you are born with, though it is influenced by the circumstances into which you were born and grew up.

Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them?

Algunos creen que la disciplina es una cuestión de «ganar» o «vencer» a tu hija. Pero éste no es el objetivo; lo que queremos es hacerla más fuerte. Debemos ayudarlos a manejarse, a gestionar sus emociones, y a ser capaces de pensar bien incluso cuando se ven sobrepasadas por las emociones. (En nuestro libro The Secret of Happy Children10 se habla más de este método de «quedarse de pie y pensar», tanto para niños como para niñas.)

the quote that i liked is"The moment of the baby boy is born is taught to be tough" i really liked this quote from the book that am reading because i think its the same in UAE,we teach our baby boy to be strong and to get up without crying and to depend on him self.

I grew up in a sanctified church. I had to wear skirts below the knee. I couldn't wear pants, open-toe or heeled shoes. We couldn't cut our hair.

Well, I think one of the big things wrong with kids these days, a lot of them don't have a family. A lot of them got one parent and there's quite a few that don't have any parents and that's where the whole problem is. There's no family life, no father to slap 'em around when they need it.

My family is all obsessed with comedy. I grew up watching a lot of comedy in the house. I used to watch Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy with my dad. But my mom is more into slapstick stuff.

I was raised in restaurants. My parents opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens when I was just 3. This business has always been my way of life. As a kid, home was reserved only for sleeping. After school, you could find my sister and I helping out at the family restaurant.

Sometimes , with the way you've been brought up, you try to just put your heart on your sleeve and play anywhere.

Those who know me well know that I don't wear my emotions on my sleeve like other people do. That's just the way I was raised.

I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing.

I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.

The way I grew up, I had hippie parents, and we would run around the garden with no shoes on, very close to nature. So I never wore little princess dresses. I still have this feeling whenever I wear a very formal dress; I always have this slight fear that people will point their fingers at me and laugh: 'Vicky is trying to look like a lady.'

The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.

I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.