Quotes About Upbringing

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Everything depends on upbringing.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..

It is high time that we had a subject called Childrening, as we have one called Parenting!

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is self-confidence.

If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.

Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created.

When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur and so that's what I've been striving for all of my life.

I've had pets my whole life, and I grew up with pigs and cows.