I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed. — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen. — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell… — George Moses Horton Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of… — Martin Denny Copy Share Image
I can't stand the comfort zone. So many people I know, their parents give them their homes, and they get married and… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The one thing my mother instilled in me, well both my parents but specifically my mother - I come from a Muslim… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny… — John Waters 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
My parents said I'd always been attracted to music from an early age. The classic story is I started singing before I… — Vienna Teng Copy Share Image
Niepokalanow is a home like Nazareth. The Father is God the Father, the mother and mistress of the home is the Immaculata,… — Maximilian Kolbe Copy Share Image
There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control). — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy. — Boomer Esiason Copy Share Image
A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it… — Soleil Moon Frye Copy Share Image
My parents say that I was singing before I could talk. I personally remember specific moments at three or four when music… — Tori Kelly Copy Share Image
I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If your child is being sneaky and not getting caught, you aren't doing you're job as a parent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here? — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me,… — Frances Bean Cobain Copy Share Image
The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the nuclear danger that some of its parents felt, neither has it developed the deep attachment to nuclear arms also often found among their parents, including…” quote by Jonathan Schell](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/6f2/jonathan-schell-29900_abolition_a-new-generation-innocent-of-the-divisio_601430.jpg)
