Quotes about Upbringing

One of the worst things we can do is allow our children to grow up thinking they don't need to keep any rules. A spoiled child becomes a spoiled adult.

There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him.

If our children grow up with no understanding of right and wrong . . .no desire to live with integrity . . . no faith in God . . .their souls will be impoverished and they will miss life's highest good.

Many children today are growing up without discipline. As they become adults and the discipline of job or family demands are placed upon them, they do not know how to cope . . .children need discipline to be useful members of society. Likewise, God's children need discipline to be useful members of His family.

I grew up in a house full of women - I have four sisters. I'm more feminine than some gay men.

I have always believed. I grew up, you know, my parents were a good Christian people. They showed us love in the home.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers.

My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.

I grew up in a small town and never went to a Black school.

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.