Quotes About Upbringing

And so that's my ideal: a child should have two caring parents, and if every child could grow up with a father and a mother, both of whom love and care for the child, ours would be a much better world.

Anyone who grew up in a household where carob passed for chocolate and apple pies were actually filled with zucchini will feel me here.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn't.

College didn't erase the differences between how everyone grew up, but it disguised those differences—

Raise boys and girls the same way.

It is no small merit in God's eyes to bring up children well.

nothing excuses violence of language and coarseness of expression, especially in a man who has been carefully brought up

Most of our default settings are inherited from our own parents. They are ingrained and programmed into us like a motherboard on a computer. They are the factory settings we return to when we are at our wit's end and not thinking and they have been installed into us from our upbringing.

Is there a greater gift you can give to your children and your children's children than to grow up to be happier, more secure and resilient adults? We don't think so.

She has the gift of accepting her life; as he comes to know her, he realizes that she has never wished she were anyone other than herself, raised in any other place, in any other way. This

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

I don't know what it's like to not work; my family embedded that in me.

Every child must have chores to do. It gives them dignity in work and the joy of labor.

I was not somebody who watched a lot of films. We couldn't afford to. We came from struggling family background.

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

Dr. Ben Carson has the most moving personal narrative in modern presidential politics. His mother, one of 24 children, had only a third-grade education. She was married at age 13, bore Ben and his brother, and then raised the boys as an impoverished single mother in Detroit. As a young boy, Carson was a terrible student.

I grew up in the hills and studied in college in Himachal Pradesh.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

My parents weren't actors or studio executives.

A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

My parents were very spiritual folks. I grew up studying the Bible. My dad's a Christian academy teacher. I grew up with a big spiritual influence. It's a big part of my life.