Erin Foster Quotes

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

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'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.

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.

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

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.

My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents.

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 was raised not so much in a puritan environment, but for the most part, a pretty healthy one.

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.

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 parents raised me right.

My parents never sat down to teach me anything; they lived exemplary life to set a lesson for me.

I appreciate my parents for everything they instilled in me and my brothers.

My parents were definitely the biggest influence in my life.

You just don't pick up family values, unless your parents teach you and let you know exactly what they expect.

Both my parents were a tremendous influence on me. My father's influence came from - he decided well, probably before we were born that as he put it, 'I'm not going to have any kids who are country club bums.'

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for.

I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.