The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so… — Kim Wilde Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives. — Deion Sanders Copy Share Image
Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Technology changes the medium. I grew up on watching a box in my living room that made my parents happy. After something… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Adam Brown’s zest for life led him down a few dark alleys and more than one dead end. Kind-hearted and wild, Adam… — Stu Weber Copy Share Image
Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
People still look askance at a kid in the supermarket who's pitching a fit and think the parent is not sufficiently in… — Ross W. Greene Copy Share Image
My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight. — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Every human being needs to know to be a great parent, for a teacher to be a great teacher, and for a… — Judith E. Glaser Copy Share Image
My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know… — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
For a long time, I was more involved in basketball, baseball and golf. My parents didn't push me into football when I… — Marc Bulger Copy Share Image
In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Pain is a spiritual wake-up call showing you that there are oceans you have not yet explored. Step beyond the world you… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn't a child actor brat; I didn't travel with them in the… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting. — John Green Copy Share Image
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery,… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
