Quotes About Upbringing

Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be.

No matter the situation, I stay focused and motivated on my goals because that's the way I was raised.

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

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.

Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

We can give only as much love as we were given ourselves.

A man who treats his woman like a princess is proof that he has been raised by a queen.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

him swinging the baton and knocking out my side teeth and cracking my temple so that I can never hear good out of that ear again and saying let that be a lesson to never take you dutty, stinking, ghetto self uptown again. And I see them and I wait. But

Parents have two primary biblical responsibilities toward their children, to bring them up: (1) in the discipline of the Lord, and (2) in the instruction of the Lord.

What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

They didn't mean that the sins a parent might commit would be visited on their offspring. The words actually meant that the mistakes a parent made while they were bringing up their children would be visited on the second, the third, even the fourth generation.

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.

But that would be exactly the wrong way to look at him, because it would be an attempt to make him a godlike figure capable of doing what no human being can do: completely transcend his own upbringing. Instead, we should assess him by the standards of his own culture and time. By those standards, he was a role model indeed.

I had a nightmare about being Trapped in an elevator with a self-made man-- He was born with a silver bootstrap in his mouth; He pulled himself up by his spoons. But when he lived in the fraternity, Before he could roll his sleeves up and get anything done, He would pack his laundry into boxes And mail it off to his mother and his grandmother-- They would wash and iron his clothes, And then mail them back to him.

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

Donna grew up with her parents arguing almost continually, and had consequently believed marriage was something that was not only inevitable, but also inevitably miserable.

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

Are all our parents, collectively, fucked up? Have they always been fucked up, and it just takes us until our own adulthood to figure that out? "I

Culture constantly impregnates the newborn from the first day,

It is impossible to separate the child from cultural influences; rather, it is a false problem.