Quotes About Upbringing

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence

Holy cow," Beckett said, turning to Madison. "You all must've been a handful growing up." "What, us? Five little angels.

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

All I'm today and I'll be tomorrow, I owe to my parents, to their love, and to the values they instilled in me.

Tout ce que je suis aujourd'hui et je serai demain, je dois à mes parents, à leur amour, et les valeurs qu'ils m'a inculqué.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

If our kids only expect blessings and exemptions, they will be terrible grown-ups.

As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter.

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

Finally he said, "I am sorry for it. His mama didn't teach him right." My mama didn't teach me right either, I thought, and I don't act that way. I kept rocking.

I've led a sheltered, virtuous life," she said.

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

Being raised by a psychopath will do that to you.