Quotes About Upbringing

You know, Manus sniffs and wipes the back of his hand under his nose. I'm high right now so it's okay if I tell you this. Manus looks at Brandy bent over him and me crouched in the dirt. First, Manus says, your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Primero los padres te dan la vida, pero luego intentan imponerte la suya.

The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.

As I look back on my own life, I recognize that some of the greatest gifts I received from my parents stemmed not from what they did for me—but rather from what they didn't do for me.

father nodded. "Well, getting to know each other means getting to know everything. Family structure, how one was raised—those are important factors.

Eriti olulist rolli mängisid vanemad inimesed. Lapsi kasvatasid tavaliselt vanavanemad, kuna arvati, et vanematel oli igapäevaelus niigi palju tegemist ning neil polnud piisavalt elutarkust, mida lastele edasi anda. Vanemad inimesed olid ja on hoolitsuse ja moraalse toe pakkujad ning jutuvestjatena on nad hõimu mütoloogilise ja vaimse pärandi edasikandjad. Kogukonna pühade traditsioonide edasikandmise eest vastutavad eelkõige nemad.

They didn't fuck me up, my mom and dad. On that score, I'm a self-made woman.

Children are pushed to give up their dependency needs and assume responsibility too early. This is particularly common in alcoholic and dysfunctional families.

Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.

Maybe at birth everyone should be given to a family of a different race to be raised. Maybe that would solve racism once and for all.

She had been brought up to follow rules, to believe that the proper functioning of the world depended upon her compliance, and follow them—and believe—she did.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.

their] children were not growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up.

I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand, gave her no right to bring me up by jerks.

Boy, be for ever grateful to all friends, but especially unto them which brought you up by hand

My child, if I have any object in life, it is to provide for your being a good, a sensible, and a happy man. I am bent upon it.

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stance as many hands high according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

I ain't took so many year to make a gentleman, not without knowing what's due to him.

Especially," said Mr. Pumblechook, "be grateful, boy, to them which brought you up by hand." Mrs. Hubble shook her head, and contemplating me with a mournful presentiment that I should come to no good, asked, "Why is it that the young are never grateful?" This moral mystery seemed too much for the company until Mr. Hubble tersely solved it by saying, "Naterally wicious." Everybody then murmured "True!" and looked at me in a particularly unpleasant and personal manner.

We're going to raise a lost generation of children unless they are properly disciplined and properly spanked.

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it, they're bums and kidnappers, but when the Church says it, it is known as putting a kid on the right track.