Joan Chen Quotes

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.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences!

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

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

I think anything that happens to you between the ages of zero to 18, and probably further on, has a lasting impact on you.

I'm a reflection of my mom, my brothers and everyone in my family. How I carry myself is a reflection of how they raised me. I've learned that.

Why am I who I am? It's the way I was raised.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.

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.

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.