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Quotes About Upbringing

Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.
~ Shinichi Suzuki
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical
~ Tom Selleck
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
~ Mark Twain
I do not come from a rich family, but I come from a really good family.
~ Jordan Belfort
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
~ Plato
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
~ Helen Hayes
In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
~ June Jordan
Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22
I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.
~ Mark Viduka
My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person.
~ Mark Prior
I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.
~ Arnold Palmer
I think I was raised by a really good mother.
~ Dean Winters
My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.
~ Moby
Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.
~ Julia McNair Wright
Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child
~ Dennis Prager
I can always tell when a girl comes from a good family because she's what's known as not at all attracted to me.
~ Dov Davidoff
I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.
~ Foxy Brown
It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.
~ James Cook
My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.
~ Jim Goad
Everything makes you who you are, so I was lucky that I had a good family that was horrified by what I wanted to do but was also supportive of it, right to the very end.
~ John Waters
I was raised that emotion was a good thing.
~ Jordan Peele
I was raised in church by Christian parents and I was baptized when I was 11 years old. But I didn't really have a good understanding of what the Gospel was really all about until college.
~ Lance Berkman
I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way I just think they are being nostalgic for the way they were brought up.
~ Michael Bierut