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.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical
I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.
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