They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best. — Jayson Tatum Copy Share Image
A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts. — Al Goldstein Copy Share Image
“She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents. — Luke Perry Copy Share Image
People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up,… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
I know most people don't like to be around teenagers but I do. I'm one of the only people I can think… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She looked at me, confused. “He hardly knew me. My parents dated and got married before we knew what happened. Let’s just… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
I didn’t know how I could live with that knowledge, without it eating me up, without it poisoning every happy memory I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that every child in America goes to a school every day that is safe, will teach them… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me… — Benoit Lecomte Copy Share Image
It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had. — Louise Hart Copy Share Image
My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor.… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school. — Rod Paige Copy Share Image
Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments. — David Sheff Copy Share Image
In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a… — Jonathan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent… — Shoshannah Stern Copy Share Image
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
A message to parents who think legalizing weed will make their kids want to try it: they will anyway. — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight… — Manti Te'o Copy Share Image
Babies grow so fast take the time to enjoy watching them grow. Being a parent means being selfless and realizing its not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image