Before you have kids, you can blow up and get mad, then you have kids and they teach you the opposite. You… — Jason McCourty Copy Share Image
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I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated… — Richard M. Daley Copy Share Image
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When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours";… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
You bring your children onto this earth thinking, 'Okay, I want to make sure that by that time, I'm gonna be good… — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
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The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“in every moment when you are parenting, you are being parented. In every moment when you are called to give grace, you… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
One thing I have noticed about having kids, is all you do is worry about them. Worry how they're going to do… — Wayne Bridge Copy Share Image
I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a… — Maxine Greene Copy Share Image
Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It's a form of bullying, in my opinion, to make sure that your kid gets the best grades, the best jobs and… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
“This, you see, is the true danger of children: they are ambushes, each and every one of them. A person may look… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We FaceTime and Skype. My two older kids got iPods for their birthdays, so they can FaceTime their dad whenever they need… — CC Sabathia Copy Share Image
“Parents abandon their children. Children abandon their parents. Parents protect or forsake, but they always forsake. Children stay or go but they… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
As children, we said no, we rebelled, we had temper tantrums and meltdowns. We tested our limits. Our parents' limits. All limits.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Eril-Fane let out a slow breath. “Were you afraid of the dark as a child?” A chill snaked up Lazlo’s spine. He… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she… — Hawa Abdi Copy Share Image
“In order for us to reach the hearts of our children we must realize that there is far more to parenting than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
When you raise a child, you don't sit down and take all the rules of life, write them into a big catalog,… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
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