Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
“It took me a while after I lost my parents to realize it’s not something you ever ‘get over.’ You learn to… — Marie Force Copy Share Image
My parents always say I have really good legs. Ive worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my… — Samaire Armstrong Copy Share Image
The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind. — Bessel van der Kolk Copy Share Image
You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert. — David Guetta Copy Share Image
Dr. Martinez: "I take it you don't want me to call your parent?" Max: "Uh, no." Hello, lab? May I speak to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools,… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
People that are that good at motivating and inspiring are rare. In many cases, you wish it was parents, and in many… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
One thing I've learnt is you should never fight it. They're natural emotions and when you try and bottle everything up, that's… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it's always better to provide the education that will help… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
My parents were my first bosses - they gave me my moral compass, goals, and first recognition. My dad worked 25 years… — Adrian Gostick Copy Share Image
If we expect kids to be losers they will be losers; if we expect them to be winners they will be winners.… — Jaime Escalante Copy Share Image
The absolute worst part of being depressed is the food. A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
I was relaxing in my parents' swimming pool with my brotherI asked him how the engineering business was going, and he reciprocated:… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
The left's obsession with corporations as a spawn of evil is pathological paranoia. A corporation is just one form of organizing a… — Mike Rosen Copy Share Image
The path to a better future goes directly through our public schools. I have nothing against private schools, parochial schools and home… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
It was life under the Soviet system - we were struggling with every big problem. Publicly, my parents had to queue up… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
Children in home-school conflict situations often receive a double message from their parents: "The school is the hope for your future, listen,… — James P. Comer Copy Share Image
My son's dad is committed, and involved, and amazing. We're actually really good friends. But I think it's dangerous to speak negatively… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
Obviously there are many, many ways of being an outsider, but having immigrant parents is one of them. For one thing, it… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children.… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
I think the best way it happens is if parents say, this is important for educating my child. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California. — Phillip Lim Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago. — Claire Forlani Copy Share Image
Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The drive to be a parent is strong. It's one of the most ingrained human traits there is. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
“Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. — SZA Copy Share Image