Diego Della Valle Quotes

We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

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.

I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

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.

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

That's my whole motivation in life - to educate people to become better a citizen, better person, better son, and better father.

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

We see the worth and appreciate the discipline my father inculcated in us.

We didn't try to raise QBs we just tried to raise kids.

When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

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 really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.

My mother always worked and thought staying at home was a bit twee, and that you should get your act together and do something useful. Now I think that's the most useful thing you can do: bring up some non-criminals.

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.

'm just going to be a good friend to my kid. One thing I definitely want to change is that whole 'I don't want you to make the same mistakes' mentality. My dad didn't have much money growing up; he didn't have much of an education. He forced that on me, and I didn't want it.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

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.

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

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

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.