Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“It’s tough to lose one parent, but to lose two—in a murder/suicide no less! But it’s OK, soon after the incident I… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I need good coffee!" I say in horror. "It's my only luxury!" I can't live with my parents and drink bad coffee.… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else… — Yolanda Adams Copy Share Image
I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
A book , once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets… — Jodi Picoult 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
Today, I would like you to pause, ponder, and think of the value of an immortal soul, especially the ones entrusted to… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this… — Hillary Scott Copy Share Image
I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
There is no solution or perfect model you can follow. The best thing I can say is you've got to get close… — Maureen Chiquet Copy Share Image
I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood,… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such… — John Walsh Copy Share Image
Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
This same formula by which Buddhists so anti-rationalistically and anti-banausically describe the "relation" between soul and body also applies to the relation… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Speaking as a parent, I don't think parents think all the time about structures. I know from conversations I've had with other… — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
You can have a good moment with a parent you are estranged from, and you have a great moment, and then the… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
Both my parents were keen golfers and Dad was such a creature of habit that he didn't see much of me at… — Steve Nicol Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels."… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to… — Shaheen Mistri Copy Share Image
A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
Me personally, I'm real close to my mom. She raised me. It was a single-parent home situation. She did everything: cooked, worked… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
I know that all over America there's probably politicians sending out pictures of themselves signing that mandatory helmet bill, but it's bullshit.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke,… — Joanna Going Copy Share Image
Parents who do not persevere in rearing their children according to their own convictions are not leaving them 'free' to develop on… — William V. Shannon Copy Share Image
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