Penn Badgley Quotes

I've raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I've observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With them growing up, but partially how they were wired at birth.

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.

While I have always had a good relationship with my father, much of the time it has been a very limited relationship until I was older. So you can't really give him credit or blame for how I turned out.

I've worked with kids that are just horrendous, and it's mostly because of their parents.

I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.