When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead,… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock… — Mark Alan Stamaty Copy Share Image
A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
The reason they came up with the ratings board is that there are a lot of movies out there, and parents need… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Frankly, I see a lot of little girls dressed in ways I think are not very appropriate. It's too much too soon,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Parents deserve the peace of mind of knowing their children are in good hands. By investing in early childhood educators, we are… — Kathleen Wynne Copy Share Image
There’s a belief now that the problem with our schools is parents, that if we just had better parents we would have… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine, but in a Maryland school, a 13- year old girl was arrested for refusing to say the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The challenges that I face today are the same challenges we all face. Trying to balance your life between work, family, loved… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
To me, the main difference between young people now and the people I was young with isn't so much style, it's the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Whenever reality reinforces a child's fantasied dangers, the child will have more difficulty in overcoming them...So, while parents may not regard a… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
As a Muslim youth, though I played a variety of sports growing up in New Jersey, my parents were in search of… — Ibtihaj Muhammad Copy Share Image
We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
To the parents, basically, of the dreamers, which was DAPA. I understand, of course, the concern that a lot of folks have… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I think the main thing that we can do as adults helping young people to find the joy in reading, whether we're… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
...Her parents were going to a conference for the weekend. The conference was called "Lawyers are Lovely, Great and Superb: so Why… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life outcomes of their children. Nearly… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
My brother and I met several times during that weekend trying to figure out what we were each going to do, and… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or… — Roy Romer Copy Share Image
Once parents have a clear idea of their important parenting goals, beliefs, and values, they can then think about specific situations and… — Timothy Carey Copy Share Image
Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
My father was very strict, a very militant parent, because he wanted us to be very focused kids. He sold the televisions,… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I used read about Dr. King a lot as a kid. Independently, from being assigned it or being told by my parents… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I am a father and I know the feel of being a father, why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also… — Juan Pablo Galavis Copy Share Image
The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and… — Mike Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
No matter how much you love your spouse, you won't love them in the same way you do your baby. It's a… — Alyson Hannigan Copy Share Image
It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the… — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
The interesting thing now for No Child Left Behind is that there are very few advocates for it; there is no constituency… — Bob Schaffer Copy Share Image
The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents —… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
One thing I always want to clear up was the notion that I 'took time off to have a baby.' A lot… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image