Drew Daywalt Quotes

Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.

When you are bringing up your kids, you hope you have given them some sense of right and wrong, a sense of good and bad.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

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.

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

The prospect of being a father made me ask myself a question. How do you know what kind of adult your child will turn out to be? And how much can you control that?

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book.

My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right.

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.

I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?