Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Parenting changed for me when I finally realized it's not about being a perfect parent trying to raise perfect kids, but rather,… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
Life is but one continual course of instruction. The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first… — Paul R. Hill Copy Share Image
This is how it is today: The teachers are afraid of the principals. The principals are afraid of the superintendents. The superintendents… — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
Our relationship with presidents is often like that of a teenager and parent. He's our leader, but sometimes we rail against his… — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
At a certain age your parents seem like the most embarrassing thing on the whole entire planet, and you want to be… — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
To win in the game of life, we all need both a healthy mind and body. By involving children in the fun… — Digger Phelps Copy Share Image
I think the single most important question is how do you maximize the number of children who grow up in stable two-parent… — David Frum Copy Share Image
How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
International adoption does not begin to solve the problems of the world's orphaned children. It's truly not the answer. At the same… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
It [an ethical problem with in vitro fertilization] depends on whether you're talking ethics from the standpoint of some religious denomination or… — Patrick Steptoe Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
There is no other complex field in our society in which do-it-yourself beats out factory production or market production. Nobody makes his… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky… — Caterina Murino Copy Share Image
“high-reactive child’s ideal parent: someone who “can read your cues and respect your individuality; is warm and firm in placing demands on… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
That is like in my parents' generation, Walter Cronkite. If you were gonna go into broadcasting, if you weren't gonna be Walter… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire about the interviewee's status regarding children, childcare,… — Alan Sugar Copy Share Image
You get to decide how you're going to look and what you're going to be when you grow up and when people… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
In a recent interview, Michelle Obama said that the Secret Service taught Malia how to drive. In exchange, Malia taught the Secret… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
There is no other parent for Inez. When I was working, I never got to hear about her day or chat about… — Laila Rouass Copy Share Image
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is a Steve [Jobs] that Apple would like to actually present to the public. They have a character, Steve, and they… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
The modern era of feminism is how you track that at its beginning. It manifested itself in crazy ways. Parents would try… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, we were the only Jewish family in a terribly anti-Semitic neighborhood. Those streets weren't any fun for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as… — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
I grew up in the countryside . But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I've had my share of problems along the way. Don't get me wrong, because there is no school for this. You go… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
“Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They… — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
My parents grew up in the Depression. Despite the success that they both had in their lives, there's a certain mentality that… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That's why I tell parents that the schools can't do it… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image