When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer. — Michael Mina Copy Share Image
My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and… — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
It was one thing to snuggle a little when the world seemed about to end, and quite another to explain to her… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
I am very blessed to have this experience of being a parent, but do not negate me from this industry because I… — Noma Dumezweni Copy Share Image
That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
“It took me a while after I lost my parents to realize it’s not something you ever ‘get over.’ You learn to… — Marie Force Copy Share Image
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Dr. Martinez: "I take it you don't want me to call your parent?" Max: "Uh, no." Hello, lab? May I speak to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
Only a teenage boy would agree to this: deceiving both our parents while repairing dangerous vehicles using money meant for my college… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
India's sex ratio is 1000 boys for 940 girls. Who creates this disparity? It isn't God. Don't fill your coffers by sacrificing… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol,… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and… — Graham Kerr Copy Share Image
My parents inspired me by their example. They both grew up in the Depression, and both of them had to quit school… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The Love Dare for Parents really came from an ongoing response from people who went through the couple's book asking us to… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease,… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Defining yourself in terms of how you rank is always dangerous and ultimately immature. It doesn't matter whether the rank has to… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days.… — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert. — David Guetta Copy Share Image
The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind. — Bessel van der Kolk Copy Share Image
My parents always say I have really good legs. Ive worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my… — Samaire Armstrong Copy Share Image
Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children.… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools,… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago. — Claire Forlani Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California. — Phillip Lim Copy Share Image
I think the best way it happens is if parents say, this is important for educating my child. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image