The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love. — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
Losing close relatives doesnt get any easier, really, but losing your parents is the big deal. — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a… — Monica Denise Brown Copy Share Image
I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.' — Drew Lachey Copy Share Image
Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better. — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have… — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When I taught school, we just had the school cafeteria; we didn't have machines or things for children to buy food from.… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
My schooling was very conservative. I went to Trinity School, and then to the Hill School, which is a boarding school, then… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
My dad was a lovely guy. I had great parents. But he was a conservative shopkeeper, and he said, "Look, I don't… — John Kapelos Copy Share Image
In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
I was raised in a strict fundamentalist household, and I always say that gives you a muscle of belief. I want to… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think. — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right… — Jeremy Bonderman Copy Share Image
When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
My mom really instilled in me this idea that parents are not perfect and they make mistakes. — George Clarke Copy Share Image
Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic. — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by… — Bridget Moynahan Copy Share Image
When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
I think I have a newfound respect for what my parents did, to create two players - one who was really good… — Patrick McEnroe Copy Share Image
Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked - just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
