What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice. — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent. — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire. — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have… — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up. — Morton Hunt Copy Share Image
When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat. — Marilu Henner Copy Share Image
Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal,… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same time I've… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
"Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly,… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
I don't really date. I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with… — James Howell Copy Share Image
Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The Lord has directed, Bring up your children in light and truth. To me, there is no more important human effort. Being… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
We are respecting our parents' wishes…They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child. — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom 'Roseanne' after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of… — Alexander Gould Copy Share Image
The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didnt really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle. — Bo Sanchez Copy Share Image
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