Quotes about Upbringing
I have always believed. I grew up, you know, my parents were a good Christian people. They showed us love in the home.
— Joel Osteen
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.
— Julie Andrews
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
— Frederick Douglass
My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers.
— Joyce Banda
My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.
— David Green
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.
— Drew Barrymore
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
— Cicero
I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.
— Clay Aiken
I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
— Will Smith
For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
— Madeleine Albright
Whenever a child is given to parents, a crown is made for it in Heaven; and woe to those parents if that child is not reared with a sense of responsibility to acquire that crown!
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
— Thomas Henry Huxley