“Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss.” — Richard Beck Copy Share Image
when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
As an only child to be there when your parents say goodbye, that's tough. — Noel Edmonds Copy Share Image
My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of… — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
Growing up poor, I never missed out on anything. My parents did a beautiful job of not making me feel like I… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
So a part of you is broken when that’s gone. And part of you wants to have that rebellious feeling where you’re… — Selena Copy Share Image
I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The obsession with food filled my childhood - that's what happens when your parents are from a place or time where people… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this… — Aaron Karo Copy Share Image
It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to understand who I want to be, what I want, what I dream of. When I was a kid,… — Olivier Rousteing Copy Share Image
Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Life is love, a gift from god and parent, death is gratitude for a new dimension — Masaru Emoto Copy Share Image
We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Losing a parent, I guess it makes you realize none of us is gonna be immortal.” — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
Being a parent means being there for your child through their worst times. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Don't harness a child's imagination, encourage it so it knows no bounds!” — K. Lamb Copy Share Image
