My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
Children are not looking for perfect parents, but they are looking for honest parents. — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things? — Juvenal Copy Share Image
As a parent, my fantasy is to cook every meal, read every story, do everything, and also work all day. I'm overly… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff. — Tammin Sursok Copy Share Image
I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps. — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they… — Tina Yothers Copy Share Image
What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Conditional love is love that is turned off and on…Some parents only show their love after a child has done something that… — Louise Hart Copy Share Image
My parents said I'd always been attracted to music from an early age. The classic story is I started singing before I… — Vienna Teng Copy Share Image
Niepokalanow is a home like Nazareth. The Father is God the Father, the mother and mistress of the home is the Immaculata,… — Maximilian Kolbe Copy Share Image
There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality — Iris Marion Young Copy Share Image
Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children. — Timothy Carey Copy Share Image
My parents’ biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn’t fathom me… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
My parents ingrained in me early on that the perfect score is always something to strive for. I want to win and… — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
Being a parent means making unpopular decisions! Saying that doesn't make it easier though. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity… — Elinor Smith Copy Share Image
Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to… — Tahj Mowry Copy Share Image
My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest. — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image