Adam Thielen Quotes

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

My parents were from New England. It's very funny, but when I grew up, you always had to say, 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Yes, sir.'

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

Quality of life is very important in France. I have many friends who turned down promotions and more money because it would affect their quality of life as a couple or a mother.

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.

The Franks are void of all zeal and jealousy. One of them may be walking along with his wife. He meets another man who takes the wife by the hand and steps aside to converse with her while the husband is standing on one side waiting for his wife to conclude the conversation. If she lingers too long for him, he leaves her alone with the conversant and goes away.

The American sense of decorum is falling apart.

I tell my kids no television and no cellphones at the table.

If I walk in a home, and a young man disrespects his mother or grandfather, grandmother in front of me, I'm out. Because if that's the case, he respects no one. He is not going to respect me.

Stay-at-home mothers are building our future. And I feel like if we had more of them, our society would not be in such a decline.

Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness that spreads its edicts further and further into the crevices of everyday life.

Every culture is different in terms of what is taboo and what is acceptable. I grew up in Singapore, where people are very mindful of that. One can see that as restriction or as consideration for a fellow person living within a shared environment.

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 go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

In New York, if you go into an Italian-American neighbourhood, the code of the streets is respect and reputation.

I want to be able to savour life while I'm still relatively young and when I'm still relatively healthy enough to do all the things I want to do, like travel, spend more time with my family and grandchildren without the huge pressure that comes with being a football manager.

We don't want to cross too many lines or offend the parents at all.

I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The 'well brought up' child is the one who can pick up nonverbal cues from adults and interpret them correctly.