Quotes About Upbringing

It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. We do not know how to lie. The Tell the truth! imperative drummed into us by our mamas and papas functions so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman during an interrogation. It is simpler for us to argue with him or insult him (which makes no sense whatever) than to lie to his face (which is the only thing to do).

It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. We do not know how to lie.

Children are responsible individuals in embryo. They have ultimate rights of their own and are not simply the playthings of their parents.

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.

I've always loved dogs. I grew up with them and I love working with them. They're really fun.

I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!

We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

I grew up in New York, I love New York.

I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I can't imagine that if I had kids I would raise them anywhere else besides Chicago.

India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love.

Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town up north in Canada. I have to say I just love the city lights at night.

I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been supported. My family has always protected me in a sort of manic way.

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

It's almost impossible to escape the beliefs our parents instill in us, isn't it?

Marvel and DC are my divorced mom and dad. DC is my stable, loving, nurturing mom. Marvel is my weird dad who lives in a condo and doesn't know how to cook, but he'll let you stay up until three in the morning watching RoboCop 2.

Parents are responsible for 40 to 50 percent of a child's habits. Children are greatly influenced, not just by their parents' efforts at persuasion, but also by their behavior.

Relationships are easier when you've been raised with similar expectations and standards.

You were apt to go from one extreme to the other, in a truly pious environment; which is why ministers' sons in that day were more less expected to become loose livers when they grew up.

you can't give what you don't get. If no one ever spoke to you, you can't speak; if you have never been loved, you can't be loving.

I never expected to be happy, to have a sense of belonging somewhere. I didn't grow up with a sense that this was possible or even desirable. I'm quite sure my parents didn't either, so I come by this honestly.

Buck was no fan of Hispanics, but he couldn't bear listening to Blister berate the driver. When Buck was a boy, he'd overheard his father speak to a Puerto Rican auto mechanic the same way, and he remembered feeling uneasy and possibly ashamed. True, he and his brothers had grown up to be racist dickheads like their old man, but they weren't in-your-face racist dickheads.