The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today… Regardless of whatever they went through… — Anne Sullivan Macy Copy Share Image
For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added,… — Willow Bay Copy Share Image
I've been making electronic music since I was 12. I was making music as soon as I knew how to make sounds… — Travis Stewart Copy Share Image
I was very strict on that point. No devouring classmates." Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Other parents warn their kids not to talk… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Sometimes people say to me, “I want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
Kids who are middle class, socioeconomically, are surrounded by mentors. They have coaches, teachers, they have family friends, their parents have friends.… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
It's hard not to sell out because once, you know, I grew up with working-class parents who definitely, definitely would be disappointed… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
“If the whole world seems like it's against you, it helps to know that you've still got home. A safe place. It… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the… — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Copy Share Image
She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with… — Bob Filner Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
No election is ever just about one issue, but I care a lot about women's rights and making sure parents have what… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
I have two sons, ages 23 and 25, and know that parents need to listen more and speak less. Young people today… — Christian Picciolini Copy Share Image
“TV was like a third parent- a source of ideas and information and impressions. and not such a bad parent- always with… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday… — Andy Samberg Copy Share Image
We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
“No one ever said life was going to be easy.” Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When you have a child yourself, you go back and think about how you were parented, how you were mothered and what… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
We are an aspirational society. We believe that circumstances of your birth do not determine your outcome. You shouldn't have to be… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny… — Ice T Copy Share Image
When I pick a role, one of the things that I aspire to is that somebody's parent will come up to me… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and… — Dick Butkus Copy Share Image
I suppose that every parent loves his child, but I know, without any suppossing, that in a large number of homes the… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
When you gaze upon the lovely sight. Of twins, arm in arm, asleep at night. Think not that the house has been… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs,… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image