Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned. — Dorothy Nolte Copy Share Image
One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today. — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
“Parents rarely let got of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“She's not a baby anymore, my love, said Tarik softly. That's what we have to accept, you and I.” — Soheir Khashoggi Copy Share Image
Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“My little boy was no more and even though he'd come home for vacations, our relationship would never be quite the same.… — Sallyann Murphey Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
I was an only child growing up, and my father passed away when I was twelve, so for most of my life,… — Annie Wersching Copy Share Image
My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I was an only child. Growing up, we moved a lot, so I didn't have any close friends. So the animals I… — William McNamara Copy Share Image
With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before… — Arnold Gesell Copy Share Image
As I look back on it now, I'm thinking of one very vital factor, that one factor being that I was afforded… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
“Now that Olive was grown, I didn't know what to do with myself. You could build your life around one single thing,… — Michael Lee West Copy Share Image
A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
As a child growing up, you never thought about being in a videogame, then to have a game of your own and… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to… — Spoken Reasons Copy Share Image
After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious… Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted… — Edna Lewis Copy Share Image
My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image