Upbringing Quotes

“I’ve seen the anointing at work time and time again—people healed, oppression lifted, and lives completely transformed in an instant.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

“Everything depends on upbringing. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran”
― Patricia Briggs, Cry Wolf

“It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Le deuxième sexe, Tome II

“A child's growth is defined entirely by the adult that raises him.”
― Naoki Urasawa, Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 3: 511 Kinderheim

“Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact, far wiser than most other such women in power. The knowledge of a baroness must be so comprehensive that she can understand everything. Of her a philosopher might have said: "No one is wise who does not know some part of everything." Moreover, she must have the courage of a man. This means that she should not be brought up overmuch among women nor should she be indulged in extensive and feminine pampering. Why do I say that? If barons wish to be honoured as they deserve, they spend very little time in their manors and on their own lands. Going to war, attending their prince's court, and traveling are the three primary duties of such a lord. So the lady, his companion, must represent him at home during his absences. Although her husband is served by bailiffs, provosts, rent collectors, and land governors, she must govern them all. To do this according to her right she must conduct herself with such wisdom that she will be both feared and loved. As we have said before, the best possible fear comes from love.

When wronged, her men must be able to turn to her for refuge. She must be so skilled and flexible that in each case she can respond suitably. Therefore, she must be knowledgeable in the mores of her locality and instructed in its usages, rights, and customs. She must be a good speaker, proud when pride is needed; circumspect with the scornful, surly, or rebellious; and charitably gentle and humble toward her good, obedient subjects. With the counsellors of her lord and with the advice of elder wise men, she ought to work directly with her people. No one should ever be able to say of her that she acts merely to have her own way. Again, she should have a man's heart. She must know the laws of arms and all things pertaining to warfare, ever prepared to command her men if there is need of it. She has to know both assault and defence tactics to insure that her fortresses are well defended, if she has any expectation of attack or believes she must initiate military action. Testing her men, she will discover their qualities of courage and determination before overly trusting them. She must know the number and strength of her men to gauge accurately her resources, so that she never will have to trust vain or feeble promises. Calculating what force she is capable of providing before her lord arrives with reinforcements, she also must know the financial resources she could call upon to sustain military action.

She should avoid oppressing her men, since this is the surest way to incur their hatred. She can best cultivate their loyalty by speaking boldly and consistently to them, according to her council, not giving one reason today and another tomorrow. Speaking words of good courage to her men-at-arms as well as to her other retainers, she will urge them to loyalty and their best efforts.”
― Christine de Pizan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies

“My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.”
― Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom

“Tatlo ang magulang ng henerasyon natin. Ang tatay, ang nanay, at ang mga patalastas o media. Kaya kung mahina yung dalawang nauna, naagawan sila ng ikatlo sa pagpapalaki sa bata.”
― Bob Ong, Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin

“My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. 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. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter. Within myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with injustice. I had known, from the time when I could speak, that my sister, in her capricious and violent coercion, was unjust to me. I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand, gave her no right to bring me up by jerks. Through all my punishments, disgraces, fasts and vigils, and other penitential performances, I had nursed this assurance; and to my communing so much with it, in a solitary and unprotected way, I in great part refer the fact that I was morally timid and very sensitive.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before.”
― Robert Graves

“If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really, it took a
lot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Что ни говори, воспитание - великая вещь. Если мальчишку десяти лет учили быть человеком, он не позволит себе долго смотреть волчонком на тех, кто не виноват в его беде.”
― Vladislav Krapivin, Выстрел с монитора. Гуси-гуси, га-га-га...

“Some kids are raised in a mess," Ada said, "and they say, 'When I'm on my own, I'll be neater than God.' Others are raised in a mess and they say, 'Life is a mess, looks like, and that's just the way it is.' It's got nothing to do with their upbringing.”
― Anne Tyler, Redhead by the Side of the Road

“Person's behavior reflects nothing but the mirror of an aura he/she brought up in. Never doubt their integrity because of their insecurities.”
― Surjeet Kumar

“Nama itu akan jadi perjumpaan sekaligus perpisahan sang anak dengan asal usulnya. Dia tidak akan mengingkari dari mana dia berasal.”
― E.S. Ito, Komsi Komsa

“I would sooner have had that kind of upbringing than be like the left-wing intellectuals who are so 'enlightened' that they cannot understand the most ordinary emotions.”
― George Orwell, Selected Essays

“A healthy upbringing is the foundation for good families, productive communities, progressive political cultures, and decent human beings. It all begins at home, and I firmly stand by this belief.”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free

“A combination of television and the stresses peculiar to two-income or single-parent families has swallowed up most of what used to be family time as well. Our kids have no time left to grow up fully human and only thin-soil wastelands to do it in.”
― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“I think much of this is wrapped up in who we are.”
― C. M. Setledge, Seeking Morels

“Many ‘well adjusted’ adults are bitter, uncreative frightened, unimaginative, and rather hostile people. Instead of assuming they were born that way, or that that’s what being an adult entails, we might consider them as people damaged by their education and upbringing.”
― Keith Johnstone, Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

“You’ve got a newborn at home? That right?”
His smile softened the chilly air, and Haki was confident she’d made the right move.
“Leia,” he said. “She’s our first. War orphan.”
“First is a trip. Second is easier but never easy as you expect—you figure you’ve been through the worst, then the babe turns out to have their own personality. The third, though… the third is sheer joy.”
― alexander freed, The Mask of Fear

“Children of the world, do not judge your parents or hold resentment against them for not making your life easier than they planned and better than you have hoped and wished for.

Beware of judging the way they dealt with their life experiences, hardships, and struggles during your upbringing, for these wrecking events were an integral part of your destiny (...)
You can embrace them as part of your growth and acknowledge their constructive impact on you. Or you can hold onto the resentment, which secretly poisons your being, clouds your perception, and painfully disconnects you from your truth and from those who gave you life.”
― Claudys Kantara, Rebel Thoughts of Wisdom: Inspiring Conscious Change for Personal & Collective Growth

“Most childhood trauma is the result of bad parenting.
The number one job of any parent is to keep their children safe.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Empathy existed in our home long before we had a gas stove, a TV, a refrigerator, or other modern amenities.”
― Neil Ghosh, Do More Good: Inspiring Lessons from Extraordinary People