Good Upbringing Quotes:

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

- Brandon Sanderson

source: Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.50, Macmillan

topic: Good Upbringing, Polite, Persons, Being Polite

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Family, Education, Children, Happy Children, Having Kids

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

- Anne Frank

topic: Inspirational, Growing Up, Women, Good Character, Many Paths

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Mean, Doe, Literature, Good Upbringing

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Children, Parenting, Fortune Cookie, Happy Children, Great Parents

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

- Walt Disney

topic: Children, Parenting, Reality, Light And Shadow, Good Parent

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.

- John Stamos

topic: Beautiful, Good Life, Perfect, Perfect Family, Good Upbringing

I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

- Danny Dyer

source: "Question Time". Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2009.

topic: My Family, Upbringing, Good Upbringing

If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.

- Marcus du Sautoy

topic: Genes, Symmetrical, Mates, Good Genes, Good Upbringing

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

- Tom Selleck

topic: Strong, Upbringing, Good Upbringing

The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Spiritual, Flying, Intellectual, Good Family, Good Upbringing