My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I think being born in Belarus, coming here with nothing, my parents working every minute - that instilled a huge competitive advantage,… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I would have to name two people - my parents. I've seen them come through adversity and work hard to create the… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“But, Dad…” She hesitated. “It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The credit of my good upbringing goes to my mother, who's not only been a single parent to my brother and I,… — Kubra Sait Copy Share Image
Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
I remember watching that show [Golden Girls] with my parents and not totally understanding it. Like, a lot of comedy flew over… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The best advice I've ever been given is being handed a Bible. That's the blueprint for marriage that we go by, and… — Candace Cameron Copy Share Image
Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
And if you're a parent who thinks you're okay because your kid doesn't have a phone or iPod yet, and/or you've used… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
When my husband came to my parents' house for the first time, he asked, 'Why is everyone screaming? Why are they so… — Melissa Rauch Copy Share Image
I was born in London. I moved to New Zealand when I was really young; I can't remember London. My parents went… — Thomston Copy Share Image
The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV.… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most kids start playing hockey at the age of five, I was an earlier bloomer. My parents laced up my first pair… — P. K. Subban Copy Share Image
There is one thing new in sexual mores and that is today's bisexual chic. ... if you can't truthfully claim to be… — Helen Lawrenson Copy Share Image
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it -… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I… — Aly Raisman Copy Share Image
I am a black male who grew up in the inner city of Atlanta and no one ever followed me in a… — Allen West Copy Share Image
It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
I really don't understand how parents can talk about gay couples' PDA as a problem or a transgender teen's suicide and not… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
I look older. Maybe it's the short hair or maybe it's just that I wear all that has happened like a mask.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead...… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
My parents were glad to see that my new husband looks like a 'regular guy'-no earring or anything. But really I think… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment… — Chanakya Copy Share Image