Quotes About Upbringing

The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people.

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.

I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of the presence of a greater being I call God.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.

I didn't grow up in church. I had no concept of God - existence, I - the name Jesus was synonymous with tooth fairy and Santa Claus.

Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.

My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].

I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.

Parents must teach their children the fear of God.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

He who can be a good son will be a good father.

I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.