Maturity… Is The Ability To Do Something Even Though Your Parents Have Recommended It. — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
Anybody who is a parent who wants to have a professional life knows that it's a struggle... always a balance. — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I'm a parent, and I regulate what my kids listen to. I don't need the government to be the parent. If I'm… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where… — Dee Bradley Baker Copy Share Image
I have met a couple of six-year-olds who were apparently quite excited to meet me - before they actually met me. And… — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
There was no real gender definition in the sense of how you treat people in those days with gender differences. You avoided… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
One thing, parents: you need to realize is you've got to stop letting artists raise your kids. You're the parent. Why don't… — Tionne Watkins Copy Share Image
My parents were supportive. But they were scared. We were undocumented. We came to the U.S. on a tourist visa and overstayed.… — Carlo Alban Copy Share Image
Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I'm always conscious of the fact that a book starts, basically, with a kid in a lap, and a parent reading to… — Jon J Muth Copy Share Image
I have love in my life, a soul mate u2014u00a0absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch,… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
I was born in the United States, I'm proud to be an American, I'm an American first. But obviously, I'm a Chinese-American.… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
When I was little, I went to a Catholic school and was required to go to church every morning and with my… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me! — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
Being a parent myself, I really understand the importance of keeping your children safe online. — Judi Love Copy Share Image
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible,… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention. — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'm nobody's girl. My brother clings to our parents;… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt. — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In some ways, I'm slightly like a single parent, so I need to be able to provide for my family. — Trinny Woodall Copy Share Image
My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
