My parents always told us, you know, you have to get your education. You're not supposed to become a statistic. — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. — Brian Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week. — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to… — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test. — Roger McDonald Copy Share Image
I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
I have no religion because I was born and raised Jewish. And on the first night of Hanukkah, my parents, when I… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
“There are dangers everywhere, I wanted to explain to her. On the school bus, in the cafeteria, at Start, inside me. No… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
Every parent pursues the best possible opportunities for their child while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day. So in a way,… — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me.… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
I was happy because I made enough money to give to my parents. I made enough money to get married on. I… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching 'Candid Camera,'… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
I was told 20% of the kids in Kosovo didn't know where their parents were. This is a dreadful problem. A woman… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents'… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
My attitude towards money is because of my mum and dad. My parents have always worked full time and I've always had… — Amy Childs Copy Share Image
Its easy to be mad at a father for not being there, but do you really want someone in your life that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and… — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms. — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
I'm always working, and I'm a single parent, so I don't think I have time for stuff most normal people do. — Charlie Murphy Copy Share Image
Being a parent means having an understanding and respecting your child's views and opinions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“As a parent, you are a powerful change agent. Sustainable human development starts in the family with conscious parenting.” — Chidi Ejeagba Copy Share Image
When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety. — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am. — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
It's very important not to do what your peers think you should do, not do what your parents think,your teachers or even… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
To me, I'm the epitome of what a ghetto child is: I was raised by a single parent; I stayed in apartments… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday. — Charles E. McKenzie Copy Share Image
Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer. — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
