81 Quotes About Upbringing

Self-esteem wasn't the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal.

We are all the products and victims of our own upbringing, until we reflect, refuse, and rebel.

It might sound scary to be out there, floating around, without all the things that tie people down--consequences, guilt, fear, panic. But if no one teaches you those things, if no one instills in you a sense of guilt, then there's nothing riding on your shoulders, telling you to be a good person. The first sense of guilt you get is from your parents, for disappointing them. If you never get that, you never get the rest.[John Fishwick, Letter to Dayly Lawlor]

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

Usually bullies have severe mothers and bad fathers, and they are usually frightened of them. That is why they are bullies, I think. There is something wrong at home. I have found that with children in general and this applies to men as well.

If we're products of our environments; Change our environment, change our product.

I turned to run, but I didn't actually take a step, even though I wanted to. That wasn't the way I was raised. My mother taught me that if you knock on a door, you have to wait there until someone answers.

But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.

I grew up in an environment where the onus of raising a child was not on the parents alone but of the entire community. The logic is in that a child who becomes a burden or an armed robber becomes a threat not only to the parents but to a whole society!