Family Environment Quotes

I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

I had a lot of space as a kid. My mother worked with human rights for the government, and my dad had a book publishing company, but they weren't really musical.

Where I grew up, it was a very open home.

Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.

Dad was never a Mr. Mum-type of person who'd stay at home. It was a big thing when he was home - he was a circus.

As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many waking hours in the home as in the school, and 126 times as many hours in the home as in the church. Each child is, to a great degree, what he is because of the ever-constant influence of home environment and the careful or neglectful training of parents. Home is the best place for the child to learn self-control, to learn that he must submerge himself for the good of another. It is the best place in which to develop obedience, which nature and society will later demand.

I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was not artistic and didn't know how to deal with my emotions.

I lived with my mom and sister, so I'm more used to dealing with women.

My son has one parent who's 50. I want him to have a family of young people, too!

My dad's from Barbados, but I lived with my mum. She brought me up; my uncle took me to the football. I grew up in a white family, I'd say.

I was raised in just about as perfect a home environment as you could ever imagine.

Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise.

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.

As the family goes, so go the children.

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.

I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me.

I was lucky to grow up in a family where your parents loved you no matter what you were or what you came out as, and a lot of kids don't have that ride.

I didn't want to raise my child in Hollywood.

My dad always had music playing around us and he was always a happy chirpy man with a beautiful voice. I was always singing around the house and I assumed that's what all families did. It wasn't until I went through that nasty teenage stage that I started to realise that wasn't the case.