It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore. — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
What's great is my parents aren't stuck in the '60s. My dad is so into the culture of today. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Many people have been positive influences in my life. My parents, whom I mentioned, were the most important, but many of my… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It's important for the children's point of view. That they have parents who are equally unreasonable, but in different ways. — Guy Jenkin Copy Share Image
“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was… — John Green Copy Share Image
As a parent, the most responsible thing I can do is get as much information about my children as possible so I… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood… — Fran Kranz Copy Share Image
There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world,… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I always seem happy in front of my parent not because I don't experience sadness but because I know the pains a… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
The first expert said he had attention deficit disorder. The second expert said the first was out of order. One said he… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
The only lie I really remember from my adolescence was when I was in sixth grade and I was dropped off with… — Dan Byrd Copy Share Image
Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“I could do anything—be anything. I could be a blackberry farmer. I could worry about phone bills and nipping out to the… — Joe Ducie Copy Share Image
I've learned to become a progressive man because I have four women in my life. And their mother, who I'm not married… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
