Quotes About Upbringing

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.

I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

Let's start off with my father being a mailman.

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.

I was raised to work for my father when I was four.

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased

Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.