I think parenting is one of the most important jobs, because you can hit two or three generations with the values in… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods… — Grace Meng Copy Share Image
The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Children long to know that they are lovable. And there are ways that technology can help with that. But ultimately it's their… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
Children are all unique, so when you're blending families it's really important to get to know each individual child... Being a stepparent… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and "wisdom" and simply personal family… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I just love Wisconsin. I'm a fourth-generation Wisconsinite,and my great grandparents were farmers. My grandfather delivered the mail. My mom was the… — Mary Burke Copy Share Image
It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't… — Novak Djokovic Copy Share Image
Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas… — James Howe Copy Share Image
I didn't feel like I belonged with my mom. And I didn't feel like I belonged with my dad. Since they were… — Willie Herron Copy Share Image
You deliver 2,000 babies or better - 3,000 by that time. And that's, you know, at minimum, three people each. And then… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Everybody has an image of [princess Margaret], to a certain extent. But I felt it would have been harder if we were… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even… — Alvin Francis Poussaint Copy Share Image
One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I did study drama at Catholic U, but the undergraduates weren't put in productions, really, except as extras, and it wasn't a… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
What if more and more parents, grandparents and kids around the country band together to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
We enslave, torture and then slaughter animals to eat them, then when we eventually become sick from that we enslave, torture and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I just think I'm blessed. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. I have a great grandmother that passed away at 104 and… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy. That's why most of the elderly wear pants… — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I started teaching in '76 and I'd been a photographer at the Geographic for six years. But prior to being at the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I know rappers who are grandparents and we still haven't conquered politics, social development, philanthropy and these are areas, as we become… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
My concerts consist of black, white, Korean - everybody. And the age group is so broad, from kids to great-grandparents. I have… — Landau Eugene Murphy Jr Copy Share Image
I guess the closest I came was doing chores around the house to earn pocket money. My brother and I would have… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image