As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don't have to be perfect. That's the key. You just… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
Women are brought up to believe you are going to be the better parent and you know what's best. I don't think… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is no such person as a perfect parent, and certainly this book was not written by perfect parents. Do the best… — William Sears Copy Share Image
I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my… — Ali Shariati Copy Share Image
I'd always ask my grandma, who was so, so smart, why she didn't work, and she would explain that her parents didn't… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
There was a band in San Diego, Bluegrass Etc, that played a weekly gig. My parents would take my brother and me… — Sara Watkins Copy Share Image
Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture… — Sister Parish Copy Share Image
The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship,… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Even child abuse specialists do not routinely screen for domestic violence. This shows how much more education we need to do, even… — Jocelyn Brown Copy Share Image
All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for… — Estelle Ramey Copy Share Image
Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an instinctive parent, rather than one driven by 'shoulds.' When I was pregnant, I read all the books,… — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples' homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children… — Zhou Xun Copy Share Image
That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
When I was young, we were quite strongly discouraged from listening to pop music. It was an uncomfortable thing, pop music; I… — William Orbit Copy Share Image
You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models,… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano,… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that's why… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long… — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong.… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years.… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
To raise positive kids, we as parents must identify the qualities necessary for success, convince our children that they have the potential… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family,… — Olivier Martinez Copy Share Image
Climate change is critical to me because I'm a parent; I feel a sense of responsibility to the future. I'm not going… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things.… — Brooklyn Sudano Copy Share Image
All the work on heritability was never based on looking at genes; it was based on the similarity between identical twins or… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
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