Quotes About Upbringing

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

My mom wasn't a movie star.

Manson liked to brag that prison was his daddy and the street was his mother.

At Yale, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd grown up in Newark. In Newark, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd gone to Yale.

whether it was fortunate or unfortunate for Claire that neither of her parents had left be-hind any relatives suitable for raising her—all had either been too dilapidated, too debilitated, too disinterested, or too dysfunctional.

It's never too early to begin pointing your little ones' souls heavenward.

The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated with the Word of God.

It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children.

What do you want for them when they're grown? Surround them with people who are that—the kind of adults you want them to be. Children are such mimics Ã¢â'¬Â¦ if they see honesty and fair dealing and kindness, they will copy that.

A person of her class. A person whose habits and manners stamped out the development of desire and predilection.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

Every man is what environment and heredity make him.

Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poor so the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.

As women, we need to give the right upbringing to our sons so that they respect, protect, and help the weaker sex instead of bullying them.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

When I was younger, I used to think that my unconventional upbringing was a weakness, but over the past few years, I've learnt to see it as one of my greatest strengths.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.

Anybody that lives in America and has parents with a moderate amount of wealth can be spoiled. I see it every day - kids who are just running their parents over to get what they want because kids are smart, and they know they can manipulate their parents.

What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.