Jerry Jeff Walker Quotes

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

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

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

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

My kids would probably say that I'm too strict. They probably would say that, and I try not to be, but I'm probably more on the conservative end of that. At the same time, I know full well that ultimately I don't really have control over them.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

My parents never really lecture me.

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.

Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.

They say they blame it on a song when someone kills a cop, what music did they listen to when they bombed Iraq?

I was raised mostly by my mom.

I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.

My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.

I would consider my dad a pretty patient guy, but there was no tolerance for spoiled behavior.

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

Having been raised very disciplined, I had to iron for my mom every Friday afternoon after school.

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

You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

You have yourself to blame.

it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove