Quotes about Upbringing

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.

No matter what you teach the child, he insists on behaving like his parents.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

The vast majority of children are not trained in the way they should go, for when they reach adulthood, they do not walk with God.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Instilling values of faith at an early age is important.

It's clear to me that if we raise children with no moral compass, we are planting the seeds of our own destruction.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

How much more beautiful would be the world and the society in which we live if...every mother regarded her children as the jewels of her life, as gifts from the God of heaven, who is their Eternal Father, and brought them up in true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.

I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.

Until the age of 19, I lived in the Communist Party commune where eight families lived in 180 to 200 square feet of space. In that world, social justice was a given. We grew up valuing that.