I learned much from my father just by watching his example. If I saw him hold a door open for someone, I… — Jerry Della Femina Copy Share Image
Cutting HBCUs was unconscionable. Implementing new regulations on Parent Plus loans, which cost HBCUs 28,000 students, was hostile. At the same time,… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should… — Esther Rolle Copy Share Image
Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I will hold you tight, support you, guide you, teach you, hug you, protect you and love you with all my soul.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they… — Rumer Willis Copy Share Image
I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and… — Maksim Chmerkovskiy Copy Share Image
Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
What I have most learned from my son is to respect him and to love him unconditionally. I believe that if parents… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens… — John Bingham Copy Share Image
There is an ancient tradition of how to tie the topknot that gets passed down from parent to child. In my case,… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
I had a fan who had a fictional relationship with me. She wrote letters to me and then wrote return letters to… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility -… — John Irving Copy Share Image
But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would… — James Sheridan Knowles Copy Share Image
I don't want to die before my parents die, especially my mother. Because I think that's tragic. Because I don't want her… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I was put into this business by my parents as soon as I could walk. I was groomed by them for this… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my… — Jordan Sonnenblick Copy Share Image
I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
I remember, the first time I played a parent was - I did a guest spot on 'Veronica Mars,' and they were… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its… — John A. Hiigli Copy Share Image
Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I feel most assuredly that our Father in heaven is far more interested in a soul-one of his children-than it is possible… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England.… — Graham Parker Copy Share Image
It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image