Quotes about Upbringing
My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.
— John Piper
I'm a Catholic school boy from the military.
— Conor Lamb
I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.
— Dolly Parton
I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.
— Charles Spurgeon
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
— Billy Graham
The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didnt really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.
— Bo Sanchez
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
— Bishop TD Jakes
On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.
— Barack Obama
I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.
— LeBron James
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
— Billy Graham
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
— Charles Dickens
The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.
— Dan Quayle