Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do. — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance. — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself. — Jaime Winstone Copy Share Image
If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts. — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You have to figure out what works for you as a parent, and it's hard to do everything all at once. — Brianna Keilar Copy Share Image
We've all been children, we all know a parent or parent-figure. This makes us all potential writers of children's books. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools. — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses,… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
Parents ought to feel more comfortable about the care of their children than some experts would seem to permit. If children were… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
There are a lot of little kids, amazingly enough, that see me. Their parents go, 'That's Mace Windu.' They go, 'Oh, right.… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math.… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neighbors believe in… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Starting in high school and continuing through our higher education system, we must ensure our students are on the right path to… — Pat McCrory Copy Share Image
One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
You realize how much the relationship when kids are young can suffer. And it's important to make sure that you are able… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I think it's a sign of a gotcha political system that's looking to take down public interest candidates that they make a… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
