Quotes About Upbringing

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.

I hope my child will be a good Catholic like me.

My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.

My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.

My father was very funny, so I grew up with humor in the house. And I was always really attracted to comedies on TV. I was always really attracted to comics.

If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail!

My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first one in your class, that means the school is bad." That was his humor.

No one ever thinks about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Good values are easier caught than taught.

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

It doesn't matter what a person is born but it matters how he grows up to be...

To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.

El humor es una de las mejores y más disfrutables herramientas de crianza.