Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

I was raised by a single mother.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

My father made me very tough.

I used to get beat up by my brothers, and that kind of built me into the man I am.

Not having my father around has made me a better person.

Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness.

It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.

It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

I grew up with two brothers with whom I played a rough game of football. If I could take that, I could take anything.

I think if I had gone to a private school and been coddled a little bit, I wouldn't be as tough as I am now.

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

I think that, any young child or teenager, you take a lot from your parents when you're growing up.