Parents, whether or not we believe in a deity, know that to witness a child's mind searching for meaning is a miracle. — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
Far too many young people are living in their parents' basements, and I think it is important for people to have hope… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I still dream about my parents and have done every night for 10 years, and I wake up either crying or having… — Chuck Mosley Copy Share Image
I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor;… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
My parents worked really hard at communicating other values they felt were important, such as integrity, courage, humility, treating others with dignity… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to… — Jenny Mollen Copy Share Image
"A Tale of Three Cities" is a tribute to our parents' generation, who escaped from city to city in search of their… — Mabel Cheung Copy Share Image
Preoccupied with her self, the adolescent sees enormous changes, whereas the parent sees the child she knew all along. For the parent,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how… — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
I couldn't get away with Halloween pranks 'cause my parents owned the health food store. So, it was so easy to bust… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
“In the jumbled, fragmented memories I carry from my childhood there are probably nearly as many dreams as images from waking life.… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man… — Takeda Shingen Copy Share Image
The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
Young women know that something is off; they know that the world is a messed-up place. They know that the world is… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
As long as children are still getting kicked out of their homes by parents, getting bullied, commuting suicide, et cetera. it's definitely… — Rayvon Owen Copy Share Image
Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner. — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
To bring up a child well, all a parent needs to do is be extremely honest with the child. — Sushmita Sen Copy Share Image
I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things… — Aaron Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Our rule is: If it makes the parent laugh, and the kid asks why, that can't be an uncomfortable conversation. — Dan Povenmire Copy Share Image
It started with a simple ring, You became husband and wife, You progressed to being parents And you're still best friends for… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
