Quotes About Upbringing

My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

I come from a good family. I come from a faith-based family.

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

The America I was born and raised in intersected with people of all ethnicities and beliefs and that, coupled with my parents' instilling of good values, made me the individual I am now.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.

When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that

Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.

I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.

Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.

All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

Oh Lord, help me change my ways, Show a litlle mercy on judgement day, It aint me I was raised this way, Never let em' play me for a busta, Makin' hell for a huslter.

Yeah, my parents help me keep my feet on the ground.

It is only through the home that a people can become really good and truly great.

Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home