Quotes about Upbringing

Really, it's not easy being the badly brought-up center of attention of a family of nitpickers.

The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.

I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.

Ah!" said the grocer, "I thought I knew his features. He takes after his mother's family; she was a Dodson. He's a fine, straight youth; what's he been brought up to?" "Oh! to turn up his nose at his father's customers, and be a fine gentleman,—not much else, I think.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.