Quotes about Upbringing

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.

Good values are easier caught than taught.

What was left of the little world he had grown up in, and whose standards had bent and bound him?

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

In the area I grew up, there were loads of gangs and stuff like that, and I was a bit of a fighter growing up. So, it was easy to be attracted to it, but I had my brother there giving me good advice, telling me it's pointless joining gangs, and things like that. I've always listened to him.

One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

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

It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children.

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

Dads offer the spiritual love that instills confidence in children.

When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States military, would hoist me up onto the elevator - the flight control surface located at the tail of his airplane. From up there I could get a glimpse of the world as he saw it.