Quotes About Upbringing

My mother, who is a Carnatic musician, started a school for children when I was around three, and I grew up listening to her teaching students.

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

After Mickey passed, I was talking to my mom on the phone. She was talking about how we were such good brothers and we were so close. And I said, 'Mom, think about how we were raised. We were a military family. And in a military family, because you move around so much, your best friends and your first teammates are your brothers or your sisters.'

I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.

To live the first five years of your life feeling that you are valuable is a wonderful thing and, if you don't have it, then you spend the rest of your life trying to find it. I think my mother realised this and tried to compensate for my father's extreme preoccupation with himself.

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

I grew up on country radio. You know I'm a sucker for that 'we got no money but we got love' crap.

Many of these mothers raised their daughters to not need a man. At

Un resultado interesante de este proceso es que los niños que ven que sus padres abren sus casas a diferentes personas, será muy probable que, cuando lleguen a adultos, ayuden a otros.

There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them, Pevara Sedai," Emarin said. "It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

My parents shaped my character and therefore my life.

One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not in school. Most of us learn about money from our parents. So what can a poor parent tell their child about money? They simply say Stay in school and study hard. The child may graduate with excellent grades but with a poor person's financial programming and mind-set. It was learned while the child was young.

Most of us learn about money from our parents. So what can poor parents tell their child about money? They simply say, "Stay in school and study hard.

You cling to those beliefs because that is the reality you were raised in.

Casi todos aprendemos de nuestros padres lo que sabemos sobre el dinero

a little appreciation sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious bringing up in the world.

She wanted all her boys to be gentlemen, she said.

I don't think listening to Mr. Howard's arguments is likely to do me much harm. Mind you, I believe what I was brought up to believe. It saves a vast of bother—and back of it all, God is good. The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling.

Mamá Elena opinaba que la palabra mamá sonaba despectiva, así que obligó a sus hijas desde niñas a utilizar la palabra «mami» cuando se dirigieran a ella.

If life—and my job—have taught me anything, it should be that every family is a mille-feuille of pathos and neuroses, sins and secrets. Someday I'll stop assuming that everyone except me grew up feeling at home in their homes.