Quotes About Upbringing

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Any fool can make a baby, only a man can raise one.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to college. I did not grow up with any literature in the house at all.

I grew up in a small Latino community that was very masculine-driven.

Coming from a family who put a lot of emphasis on academics, I always thought I was going to be a lawyer.

I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

Parents must lay down ground rules for their children to help them to grow up and to learn responsibility for their actions. They must learn to stand on their own two feet.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

I grew up just as my friends did until 19 before leaving home, and it's because of that I am who I am now.

I didn't grow up with my dad, or around the whole legacy. I was post-Motown, so I'd always hear stories and wonder what was it like.

I grew up in a very liberal place.

I had a very liberal family.

All my friends were liberals and I grew up in a really liberal family.

I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia; it's such a good lifestyle.

Growing up, we always had an affinity for fashion but had very limited resources to express ourselves, and few examples of what success could look like off the court.

My life would've been so different if my parents listened to Korn. That would've been fire!