You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Have compassion for your humanity and your flaws. You're human and you're going to make mistakes. Look at yourself through the eyes… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing… — Naveen Andrews 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
The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
What kind of life am I setting up for her (her = daughters)...It's not just about making them, like, not be assholes,… — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
With the children of Holocaust survivors, there is always a very close relationship. You grow with the sense that you are parenting… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
Legislatively, the thing I'm most proud of is healthcare, and I will continue to be most proud of it because not only… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge was the cost to play the sport, and this is a challenge that my parents faced. They relied on… — P. K. Subban 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
But it is a myth to assume that the larger amount of early stimulation you provide, the more beneficial it will be.… — Julius Segal Copy Share Image
My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in… — Jackson Rathbone 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
She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up —… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Annabeth, thank goodness, would be staying in New York. She'd gotten permission from her parents to attend a boarding school in the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
There was an age in which it was clear to me that my parents weren't perfect, but then there was an age… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I… — Kaitlin Olson Copy Share Image
Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication. — James Merrill Copy Share Image
No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Some parents won't love you or accept who you are. It hurts, but It's not your fault that they aren't loving you… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
I went home and they seemed... my parents seemed normal. They didn't seem to feel like somehow they had been victims of… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models... — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out. — John Waters Copy Share Image
As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America. — Tracy Martin Copy Share Image
I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent. — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
I have memories of clouds whisking by while sitting in the pushchair on the roof of my parents' flat. I loved it!… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
