I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents. — Alan Sugar Copy Share Image
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives. — Chris Hemsworth Copy Share Image
The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Maturity is doing whatever you want, even if your parents want the same thing. — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists rights to free speech, which… — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
I feel a little bit like a drill sergeant sometimes. Some elements of my personality, as a parent, I'm not real crazy… — Chip Gaines Copy Share Image
Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I am aware that I am extremely fortunate that I was born to parents who had the personal resources to raise me… — Marilyn Dumont Copy Share Image
Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace - values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
“What is wrong with your parents? It’s just reading. As a parent myself, I can certainly think of worse habits than reading.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving… — Elizabeth Noble Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I am not personally a parent. But I do have two godchildren and am expecting a third. I am naturally concerned for… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being a grandparent is you get to redo what you didn't or couldn't do as a… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
“That life can be a rich place, comprised of the highbrow and the lowdown, the casual and the ambitious, private reading and… — Roger Sutton Copy Share Image
A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading... If a child picks up a book and… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
