The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour,… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
The challenges that I face today are the same challenges we all face. Trying to balance your life between work, family, loved… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility--both credit and blame--for everything. The more we wantto be good… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow. — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes. — Steve Schirripa Copy Share Image
The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow… — Morton Hunt Copy Share Image
Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I always thought I'd make a good parent, but I was single and led a solitary life for many, many years. Then… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families....… — Stephen Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedication… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm not fanatical about exercise, but I am really fastidious about trying to be a good parent. — Davina McCall Copy Share Image
Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen. — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about… — Lauren Holly Copy Share Image
I'm so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find that I'm… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image