Tommy Morrison Quotes

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

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.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

If I walk in a home, and a young man disrespects his mother or grandfather, grandmother in front of me, I'm out. Because if that's the case, he respects no one. He is not going to respect me.

Classically, it's the child who looks up at their parents who says, 'This is how the future is going to be,' and it's the parents who don't understand because they're set in their ways. For me, it was the exact opposite.

Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.

Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

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.

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.

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.

I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.

You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they're just on another planet.

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.

My mother was a disciplinarian. She believed that when young girls start to go out with young boys, they get married.