Emeril Lagasse Quotes

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

We all want to raise our children well.

I can't stand a house to be dirty or even messy, even. I am a bit OCD. Wash the dishes when you finish eating.

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood.

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.

I'm not a neat freak. I don't mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can't relax in a dirty environment. I like things organized.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

The important thing is that when you correct your children, they see what they've done wrong and why you're upset.

I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.

I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.

There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

My parents kept me very grounded.

My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.

You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

We children learned responsibility automatically.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

When I was very young, I used to clean up after my parents. If I stay in a hotel, I make the bed and clean the room when I get up, even the bathroom mirror, for which I carry a tiny bottle of ammonia.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.