Childhood Lesson Quotes

I grew up under the sticks and stones rule. I didn't put my hands on you so why should you put your hands on me or my family.

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

I learned how to shoot when I was pretty little.

As a child, I had a teacher who told me, 'Look, Anne, one person can't make a difference.'

One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."