It's not that I succeed, it's that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents. — Attila the Hun Copy Share Image
Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval. — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
One of the worst things about being a parent is knowing you can't protect your child from everything. It's life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not… — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead...… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
I look older. Maybe it's the short hair or maybe it's just that I wear all that has happened like a mask.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
My parents were glad to see that my new husband looks like a 'regular guy'-no earring or anything. But really I think… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
It's a crazy time right now with kids. They are so much, more savvy than even their parents are. They are handing… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Night terrors are in deep sleep, and they're more common in kids, as are nightmares, but what happens in a night terror… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era,… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table. — Bo Sanchez Copy Share Image
You are a wonderful son, and a wonderful man. Yet another parent busting forth with the “man” thing! I’d have to check… — Jordan Sonnenblick Copy Share Image
I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people… — Summer Glau Copy Share Image
When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep… — Daniel Johns Copy Share Image
Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent, two, or no children at all. — Shere Hite Copy Share Image
I have the most incredible parents and they didn't put pressure on me. I grew up in a house and no matter… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
“and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going into every fight with backup, you are going… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never… — Charlie Viracola Copy Share Image
A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
