I thought when I... made my first big mistakes in public that that was really going to be the end of me.… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them… — John Green Copy Share Image
My parents are my inspiration. Believe it or not, they're my personal coaches. After every game I still call them and get… — Vince Carter Copy Share Image
It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right… — Jeremy Bonderman Copy Share Image
You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with… — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents;… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I grew up in the countryside . But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover… — John G. Miller Copy Share Image
I knew that I wanted to live in a city, but had never really been to New York. But I was begging… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for… — Estelle Ramey Copy Share Image
Parents deserve the peace of mind of knowing their children are in good hands. By investing in early childhood educators, we are… — Kathleen Wynne Copy Share Image
Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate.… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
Israelis are wrong in not looking for a change in the relationship with the United States that would put it more in… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Most parents hate to experience conflict, are deeply troubled when it occurs, and are quite confused about how to handle it constructively.… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
When you look at the Bible, and I read the Bible very seriously, for a lot of my life, I believed the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because,… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away,… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light. — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
I swore that I wouldn't be one of those parents who leaves a Bugaboo pram parked in the communal entry hall. Well… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
It's very important that your parents have careers of their own. When the kid becomes the breadwinner of the household, that's when… — Jaleel White Copy Share Image
When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not… — Bob Keeshan Copy Share Image
All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are… — Brooklyn Sudano Copy Share Image
It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first… — Kerri Walsh Copy Share Image
My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect,… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
