Quotes About Upbringing

You are the politest man I know, Jake Burnett." "Had politeness beat into me.

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

I grew up with absolutely no religion at all, and it was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I didn't have to unlearn anything.

When We Are Very Little, We Learn How to Feel about Ourselves and about Life by the Reactions of the Adults Around Us It is the way we learn what to think about ourselves and about our world. Now, if you lived with people who were very unhappy, frightened, guilty, or angry, then you learned a lot of negative things about yourself and about your world.

We also treat ourselves the way our parents treated us. We scold and punish ourselves in the same way. You can almost hear the words when you listen. We also love and encourage ourselves in the same way, if we were loved and encouraged as children. "You never do anything right." "It's all your fault." How often have you said this to yourself? "You are wonderful." "I love you." How often do you tell yourself this?

but if you were a nasty piece of work growing up, you'll be an asshole as an adult and you'll die pissed off.

Peter was willing the water to boil so he could make tea and then all this would go away. Maybe, said his brain and his upbringing, if you make enough tea and small talk, time reverses and all bad things are undone. But he'd lived too long with Clara to be able to hide in denial.

When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.

I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discouraging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture.

Children are not born with their hearts hardened in this fashion, not even Irish-Catholic children. They have to be taught by professionals.

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.

Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn't bring you up to have one

It was the fact that I didn't want to kill anyone. I wasn't put on this earth to murder my fellow man. I'd grown up with violence - can't you see that? I can't bear it.

No matter what you teach the child, he insists on behaving like his parents.

Children are the Shades of both mother and father, whether poor or rich every one had a wonderful creative life growing up with them.

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.