Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to.

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

'm just going to be a good friend to my kid. One thing I definitely want to change is that whole 'I don't want you to make the same mistakes' mentality. My dad didn't have much money growing up; he didn't have much of an education. He forced that on me, and I didn't want it.

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.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.

How I was raised is what I am today.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.

A family is where character is formed, values are learned, ethics are created, and society preserved.

Indoctrinate the Children. And when they grow to be Men and Women, their Principles will be Correct!

Give me a child for the first 7 years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life.

I was the happiest kid ever, but I did choose to live around adults and today, now that I have a kid, I don't know if I would let him do it.

Nobody starts out evil - we know that. It's life circumstances that lead them to that.