There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents? — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I'm decorating my parents' house for Christmas... I hope they find my manger with a baby yeezus in it as funny as… — Lisa Lampanelli Copy Share Image
A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family. — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are. — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I… — Jerry Rice Copy Share Image
It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend. — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents. — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal,… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician. — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
Honesty remains the best policy. If parents use alcohol in moderation in front of young children, that provides the right model. Drug… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
You know why they say that, that models are too skinny? Because parents are horrible, they can't tell their sixteen year old… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
If you've heard Hillary Clinton's recent remarks on Ritalin and other drug use on children, you'll find the usual nauseating demagoguery. She… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
My parents were entirely unpredictable and what they said very unreliable, which meant I became very attuned to the range of other… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like… — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
As with the bud, so with the blossom. A boy is the only thing known from which a man can be made.… — Paul H. Dunn Copy Share Image
For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
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