Quotes about Upbringing

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

My grandpa was a preacher.

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

I grew up with very little - so material things have never been that important for me.

My mother was a classic matriarchal figure. She'd sing round the house and always had music on.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do.