I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
If you get offended by words - by noises we make with our mouths - it means you were raised by bad… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
People were having sex before I was born. My parents had sex before I was born, nothing to do with me. I'm… — Mechai Viravaidya Copy Share Image
I think as an over-protective parent of my songs: I always feel like none of them get enough attention. There are the… — Sam Roberts Copy Share Image
In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore. — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school. — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do. They're… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them. — Cory Monteith Copy Share Image
Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused… — Daughn Gibson Copy Share Image
Having kids is a full-time job. And I don't know any woman who isn't constantly fighting between the exquisite selfishness required to… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Long before I was a success, my parents made me feel like I could be one. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents.… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease,… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your… — Steve Biddulph Copy Share Image
As long as they're not still living with their parents, [dating younger men] could be viable. — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because… — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and… — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that,… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
My parents are my role models. I also love Halle Berry, Robert DeNiro, Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Tom Cruise and Jennifer Lopez.… — Raven-Symone Copy Share Image
Certainly there was the Affordable Care Act part, then unaccompanied children [there has been a surge of children entering the country illegally… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no… — Ardeth Kapp Copy Share Image
The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's… — Diana DeGette Copy Share Image
We just found out my little brother has a peanut allergy, which is very serious I know. But still I feel like… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child. — Jet Li Copy Share Image
If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone… — Kelvin Ogilvie Copy Share Image
I believe in God. Nobody made me believe; I don't think you can or should try to force someone to believe something.… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They… — Douglas Yates Copy Share Image
People that are that good at motivating and inspiring are rare. In many cases, you wish it was parents, and in many… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image