Quotes About Upbringing

we must be certain that our children can face these challenges armed with a well-developed moral compass.

Over the years, I have learned just how Southern my Northern upbringing was, and I think that it is important to begin by making the point that the custodians of many of the old ways of African American foodways are also to be found in the ghettoes of the North.

was she following her parents' examples?

Ludwig was brought up in a house of music. There were seven grand pianos in his childhood home. The composers Brahms and Mahler were frequent visitors to the musical evenings, and young Pablo Casals played there.

Consciously or not, all parents act in ways that encourage their children to follow in their footsteps.

Tarkin thought of himself as the product of a military upbringing, in which discipline, respect, and obedience were held in the highest regard.

Don't use your upbringing as excuse, use it as power.

Some psychologists have believed we are conditioned by what happened to us in childhood—in essence laying the blame on parents. But as Christians, we believe that we decide how we will react to what happens to us. We ourselves are responsible.

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

He was raised by three nurses: freedom, solitude and Mademoiselle. Together, the three of them provided him with an education. From them, he learned everything he believed it was possible to learn.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.

... education is the second food a parent can give a child.

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.