I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
I was playing video games LONG before I ever thought about playing football. If it wasn't for my parents making sure that… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
We can begin to address the issue of guns by teaching our young people how to deal with situations in nonviolent ways.… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
The majority of [the troops in Iraq] is that feel they're doing the right thing and their parents who have also made… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I also think my dad would be reminding me that kids — more than anything else — need to know their parents… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
No matter what, your parents are going to worry about you. I had a tour bus, and my mother still thought I… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind,… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Ideally, as parents we'd have unlimited energy, the ability to manage tricky emotions like fear and anger, vast stores of wisdom to… — Gary L. Thomas 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
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
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
My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love.… — Amy Jenkins Copy Share Image
For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
America is among the countries the advance countries with the least equality of opportunity, which means that the - while I prospects… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
I don't look back, I just go forward. I'm just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
In homes where high ideals and gospel values are maintained, it is parents, not teachers, who lay the foundation of character and… — Rex D. Pinegar Copy Share Image
The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the… — Walter Ciszek Copy Share Image
I used humor to avoid being picked on as a kid. Or I would try and make my parents laugh, so I… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Parents often brag about the amount of money spent per child, but I think, perhaps ironically, those great monies that are spent… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
And that really captures the difference for the bullied straight kid versus the bullied gay kid, is that the bullied straight kid… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
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