Family Upbringing Quotes

My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.

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

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

I've always liked women more. I was brought up by my mother and older sister. I found my way into dance class.

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

I studied and worked in a Chinese restaurant to support myself. People would say to me 'Oh you must be missing home', but I had grown up hard. I was so happy to be there. I had never even been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.

The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

I try to base my life on the principles of Christ. I try to raise my family on the principles of Christ. I don't know if that makes me religious.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.

The respect I had to give my brothers and sisters growing up I think has helped me. I want my kids to be raised the same way.

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between my grandmothers, aunts, older female cousins, and of course my mother, I was pretty much predominantly raised by women, as they make up most of my family anyway.

All three of us - two sisters and a brother - were brought up with an emphasis on academics.

My mam and dad have brought me up well.

No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.

My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, 'I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.'

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

I was brought up by a really proud, supportive family, so I have that sort of grounding.

You've got to be good to each other ... it really comes back to respect. I was raised in a very Catholic, Italian family and it was all about respect. Don't talk badly about [your partner] the second they walk out the door; really preserve your relationship and be good to each other. Treat it like gold.

My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.

I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.