It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win… — Linda Hunt Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make… — Ann Douglas Copy Share Image
I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard… — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I… — Ato Essandoh Copy Share Image
Being a parent is about watching your babys first smile, helping her take those first steps and enjoying childish games. But its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've grown up a lot. I've become more independent. I can talk to my parents more like friends. When I was going… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
Once a man and woman have married, the only thing they should receive from their parents is advice and counsel, and then… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious… Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod… — Angela Cartwright Copy Share Image
As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I couldn't get away with Halloween pranks 'cause my parents owned the health food store. So, it was so easy to bust… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how… — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
“In the jumbled, fragmented memories I carry from my childhood there are probably nearly as many dreams as images from waking life.… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role. — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
I could never imagine losing a parent, anyone who's forced to deal with a loss like that breaks my heart because its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's… — Ana Ortiz Copy Share Image
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A huge part of my passion for the sport comes from being Canadian and growing up watching Hockey Night in Canada on… — P. K. Subban Copy Share Image
We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two… — Bridgette Wilson Copy Share Image
I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent. — Carl Karcher Copy Share Image
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
I hate to be a broken record - my parents have a lot to do with that too, because that's how they… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
The example my parents set, both in and outside of our household, helped me understand that we all have a specific purpose… — Ilyasah Shabazz Copy Share Image
