Quotes about Upbringing

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul.

To shape the soul of a young girl, all the nuns in the world are not equal to one mother.

It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. (...) The Tell the truth! imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman.

Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

Every school that I have ever attended, except for kindergarten, I went to a Catholic institution.

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

My mom is painfully sweet she's from Nebraska.

I began to meet young men and women who talked about having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and while I cherish my Catholic upbringing and the foundation that it poured in my faith, that had not been a part of my experience.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

In my house, you got in trouble if you didn't speak up. My mom would be furious at us if we went to school and behaved nicely if someone treated us badly. If we got in trouble because we had yelled at them or told them that they were wrong, my mother would be like, 'Good job.'