Quotes About Upbringing

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

I just love kids. As a kid, I grew up in a poor country with a poor family that had nothing. I loved anyone who could come into my life, in from the outside, and give me advice that could help me succeed. I believe that there are a lot of people who came into my life that made me Dikembe Mutombo.

I grew up poor. The fact that I had to struggle to succeed, that wasn't a big deal to me. I'd struggled my whole life.

I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society.

My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.

MY CHILDHOOD WAS A STORY of discouragement, belittlement, and unthinkable abuse, and yet I rose above. There was no way I could have found any kind of happiness, hope, or vision if my mother, Maxine, and my aunt Mae hadn't shown

say "adopted" because my father, Emmitt, was abandoned and discovered in a drainage canal at the age of two. He was taken to Mae so that she could raise him.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.

He who can be a good son will be a good father.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners

Many parents are finding out that a pat on the back helps develop character - if given often enough, early enough, and low enough

Some parents really bring their children up; others let them down

Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.

If Ivan was thought of as an evasive, irresolute and will-less man in later years, one has to suppose that his mother had broken his will.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

The best way to get rid of criminals is to stop raising them.

I want to be the best I can be no matter what the circumstances. That's how I was raised.

I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools.