Quotes About Upbringing

I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.

India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

In my family, we were not involved in politics at all.

Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.

One of the best things I learned from my parents was to be HONEST and work HARD!

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.

I have in mind an experiment. Take an infant—regardless of ancestry, race, talent, or predilection, so long as he is essentially healthy—and I will make of him whatever you like. I will produce an artist, soldier, doctor, lawyer, priest; or I will raise him to be a thief. You may decide. The infant is equally capable of all these things. All that is required is training, time, and a properly controlled environment." —JOHN F. WATKINS, Principles of Behaviorism (1913)

Perhaps it was just that, born in Scotland, you were hanselled with remorse, set up with shares in Calvin against your coming of age, so that much of the energy you expended came back guilt.

A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push church or God on her children.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

I grew up in a mixed religious household. And it was volatile. My dad's atheist, my mom's agnostic. Just constant fighting. There's no God! There might be!