The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.' — Roger Goodell Copy Share Image
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The hardest part about rollerblading is telling your parents you're gay. — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent. — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My parents have always been very supportive. I didnt go to school because my home was my school. — Clara Mamet Copy Share Image
Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
At the time I became a parent, I was taking on a more active creative role in my industry. — Asher Keddie Copy Share Image
Being a parent is not only a full time job, but a privilege that most people don't even realize. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact,… — Agnes Meyer Driscoll Copy Share Image
When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
That's what we do on "MasterChef," on "Junior." No school teachers, no parents, let it go. You're going to go on a… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents… — Bruce Molsky Copy Share Image
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone has gone trick or treating, everyone carves a jack o lantern with their parents. If you really look at the stories… — Michael Dougherty Copy Share Image
What it means to be a man is to take on all the emotional pain and work through what you got to… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Put Your Spouse First: When the children are grown and move out of the home, who will be left but your spouse?… — Miriam Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me. — John Waters Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, being a parent did impact how I go about this business. — Noma Dumezweni Copy Share Image
We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
There's no greater joy for a parent than to see their child reach their dream — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience. — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
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