According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the… — Questlove Copy Share Image
My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened… — Stuart Rose Copy Share Image
I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in… — Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I have six kids - four girls and two boys. I'm amazed that growing up in the same house, same parents with… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it… — Caroline Wozniacki Copy Share Image
It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us,… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The point is that families today are spending their money no more foolishly than their parents did. And yet they're five times… — Amelia Warren Tyagi Copy Share Image
Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because,… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
There's a joke about the balloon boy who has a balloon mum and a balloon dad and he goes to a balloon… — Gabrielle Williams Copy Share Image
Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
I'm sure it's the same whether you lost your parent at 25 or 45. When they die, the responsibility to do right… — Dale Earnhardt Jr Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of… — Jane Nelsen Copy Share Image
If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader.… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview,… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I was never told to "Get up, get out there, get a job." It was never a thing either parent ever said… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Earning my college degree. It was a promise I made to my parents. I understand that football is only a certain time… — Marcus Mariota Copy Share Image
I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot -… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Mzazi hamjui mtoto wake na mtoto hamjui mzazi wake. Kila mtu hapa duniani ni wa kipekee na wanasayansi wanatuambia kuwa tuko peke… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can't-shut-up… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Grief is just so scary… If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I want to be a better parent than I had. Even though my mom was absolutely amazing. Her and I are still… — Ashley Graham Copy Share Image
The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
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