Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility. — Shannon Woodward Copy Share Image
Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement. — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to… — David R. Brower 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
Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision… — Benjamin Spock 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
I believe that my parents helped me to keep my natural psychic abilities open. I think most kids see angels or fairies,… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling… — Fefe Dobson Copy Share Image
Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a… — Chris Hedges 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
Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
The social and economic impact of the earthquake is still very present and is contributing to mental health problems, the mother who… — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image
I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Having a kid is hard to explain, but when you talk to another parent, you have mutual understanding of what that does… — Will Grier Copy Share Image
Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a… — Elizabeth Hurley Copy Share Image
I love being a parent, and when I'm gone even 2 1/2 days for a tournament, I'm forcing Janna to be a single parent. — Karch Kiraly Copy Share Image
Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue. — Peter Gallagher Copy Share Image
Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Kids really need love from two parents. It doesn't matter if it's a mom and a mom, or a dad and a… — Brendon Ayanbadejo Copy Share Image
Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own. — Charles Sheehan-Miles Copy Share Image
Ever had a parent who embarrassed u??? Of course you did, this is what happens when a parent hurts me. — Haley Nichole Copy Share Image
Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors. — Jerry Rubin Copy Share Image
We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew. — Horace Copy Share Image
I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
