Jakob Dylan Quotes

My parents have a great role in inculcating values in me.

I had good parents. My mother had morals and standards and she brought us up to be good kids - some of the families around were just laws unto themselves, it was really tribal.

I'm lucky my parents raised me well.

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

I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

We have really good parents, and even though they broke up when we were little, we were still raised by two people who had really good ethics. They were never going to let us turn into Paris Hilton. I think that it wasn't really an option to become spoiled brats.

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 dad made a huge impact on me in terms of right and wrong.

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.

Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge.

When people say, 'You seem so grounded; you seem so normal,' I think it's the way I was raised and the way my sister and I were brought up by our parents.

I was raised the right way, my parents did a great job, I owe them everything. Without them, I'm not the man I am today.

My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' 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.

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

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.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences!