Heaven and happiness do not exist. That is your parents’ way to justify the crime of having brought you into this world.… — Fernando Vallejo Copy Share Image
Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a… — Melanie Brown Copy Share Image
From Heaven I fall, though from earth I begin. No lady alive can show such a skin. I'm bright as an angel,… — James Parton 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
I sometimes have birthday parties for the kids in my neighborhood and then pretend to suggest that I am going to molest… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Family councils, led by righteous, loving parents who are striving to teach their children to love and respect each other, can make… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Spending a lot of time away from home was strange. My parents visited me, obviously, but I was in hospital a lot,… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active,… — Josh Earnest Copy Share Image
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I grew up in a Christian home, but was nearly 17 before I realized I had to make my own decision to… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
It's also hard for me to understand growing up not knowing where I came from. I searched for my parents - I… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping… — Jami Gertz Copy Share Image
The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry.… — Kato Copy Share Image
I was blessed. I had a great childhood and great parents that loved music and family. I moved from England when I… — Bo Bice Copy Share Image
What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. pg 29 — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
Obviously, you want to teach your child between right and wrong, respect and being kind to others, whether it's their sisters or… — Eli Manning Copy Share Image
What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I grew up in Venezuela, and when I was 14-years-old, my parents decided to sell everything and come to America. Five of… — Wilmer Valderrama Copy Share Image
I really don't understand how parents can talk about gay couples' PDA as a problem or a transgender teen's suicide and not… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I have met a couple of six-year-olds who were apparently quite excited to meet me - before they actually met me. And… — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it… — Andrew Hollander Copy Share Image
As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents,… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I have a robust plan to help make quality child care more affordable. It will include an exclusion from taxes of the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately,… — George Leef Copy Share Image
We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The censors were great. There's always back and forth. But it's 'Hostel 2', it's not 'Happy Feet 2'. Everybody knows what Hostel… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to… — George Will Copy Share Image
I had in mind a case close to my family, friends of my parents, who seemed to be the perfect bourgeois family,… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
God, the very creative power at the center of the universe, is loving and caring like a truly devoted parent. This love… — Morton T. Kelsey Copy Share Image
It would be a fine thing if ... parents would have in every bedroom in their house a picture of the temple… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image