When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years.… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
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All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that's why… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All the work on heritability was never based on looking at genes; it was based on the similarity between identical twins or… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
Having a child as a single mother was a crucible - maybe this is true for all parents. I got rid of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The [character] that I was able to crawl into the most was Lilo from Lilo & Stitch. This was sort of a… — Andreas Deja Copy Share Image
[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I was just horrible. My parents were ashamed to watch my matches. I would play on… — Roger Federer Copy Share Image
I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There… — Umera Ahmed Copy Share Image
You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the… — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Copy Share Image
To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things.… — Brooklyn Sudano Copy Share Image
Climate change is critical to me because I'm a parent; I feel a sense of responsibility to the future. I'm not going… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
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People live out of either the hurt they feel or the healing Jesus provides. Your parents will never be perfect. And you… — Derwin L. Gray Copy Share Image
The nomadic lifestyle does work for a lot of working parents, but I've traveled and I've seen it, and I want to… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent,… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
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Children in Indonesia are scared because they are like the property of their parents and mostly treated as such. Women are scared… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
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I was born in Iran, left at a very young age-less than a year old-and grew up and was educated in the… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all… — Joan M. Drury Copy Share Image
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Humans are born, weak and helpless. We're cursed with natural predators called parents. That's why the grandma was created. To protect us.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
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Ruby, give me one reason why we can’t be together, and I’ll give you a hundred why we can. We can go… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
![“The [character] that I was able to crawl into the most was Lilo from Lilo & Stitch. This was sort of a cartoony-looking girl, but her problems were completely real. Her funky world that she createdI mean, you know kids like that. It was very honest and genuine and I wanted to do an honest job, so…” quote by Andreas Deja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adc/andreas-deja-64888_able_the-character-that-i-was-able-to-crawl-i_1577604.jpg)
