Ruby Bridges Quotes

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

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.

I was a good kid. My parents laid rules out for me, and I followed them.

I learned from my dad and my mom somebody should only have to tell you once. Whether it's me getting in trouble, they said I should only have to tell you once. I've kind of took that and made that for all aspects.

If I say to my daughter, "Go say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

The first Law of Heaven is obedience, and it should be the first law of every home. It is the foundation of an orderly home, a successful family, and the successful lives of the children. The wife is the key.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

I haven't really rebelled. I just think my parents were right. I never disagreed with anything that I was brought up with, in terms of their values or politics.

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

While they are kids, my children must do as I say.

In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

I think I was brought up in a respectful household.

He will punish you as a father punishes his disobedient child, unless you do as he desires.

My parents were always very strict, and they gave me the right beliefs in how to treat people. It was very strict and all about morals - I try to pass that on to my own children.

If you did something, and it wasn't right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn't get too much by them.

Mother never said to me, 'Stay out of trouble.' She didn't have to!

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.