My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school. — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds? — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence. — Jack Wagner Copy Share Image
I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children. — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
I was an ugly child. I got lost on the beach. I asked a cop if he could find my parents. He… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Tolerance sounds like a virtue, and at times it may be. [But should] a parent be tolerant of behavior that is harming… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to… — Michael Parkinson Copy Share Image
The love for a child is more an unconditional sort of love ... Although some parents are really narcissistic. In general, I… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Every pastor, youth pastor, and every parent is in competition with the Internet and the information it is spreading. Most young people… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me.… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents'… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching 'Candid Camera,'… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I was told 20% of the kids in Kosovo didn't know where their parents were. This is a dreadful problem. A woman… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do? — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just… — T-Pain Copy Share Image
She'd be one of those parents who left a kid behind at a rest stop, driving for miles before she noticed. We'd… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
No one tells you how hard being a parent is! We could have had a warning! It is literally the hardest thing… — Declan Donnelly Copy Share Image
With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities… — Tina Yothers Copy Share Image
When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar. — Sam Endicott Copy Share Image
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
We must never make our parents sad, even if this means giving up everything that makes us happy.. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a… — Susan Mann Copy Share Image
Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles. — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
![“Tolerance sounds like a virtue, and at times it may be. [But should] a parent be tolerant of behavior that is harming a child? Or the police be tolerant of criminals who prey upon others? Should doctors be tolerant of disease, or public schoolteachers tolerant of any answer on an exam, no matter…” quote by Dave Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/856/dave-hunt-20290_answers_tolerance-sounds-like-a-virtue-and-at-ti_2253295.jpg)
