I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
Being a parent can be overwhelming at times, but it's something we're figuring out as we go. — Lacey Chabert Copy Share Image
Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping. — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world,… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
There's a lot of, unfortunately, a lot of divorced families. I come from a divorced family... and you have parents meet someone… — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
It's important for the children's point of view. That they have parents who are equally unreasonable, but in different ways. — Guy Jenkin Copy Share Image
My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
This is our first interest as a church-to save and exalt the souls of the children of men. There is no richer… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- vampires, my parents, everything.… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is. — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
[My kids] are, sweet, kind, funny, smart, respectful people, and they treat everybody with respect. That's not just the biases of a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race… — James Agee Copy Share Image
The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents,… — William Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics. — Allison Silverman Copy Share Image
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America… — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image