Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked - just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence. — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Nowadays, you cannot tell your kids what to do. In fact, you have to listen to them. As a parent, give them… — Chunky Pandey Copy Share Image
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. "She… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was… — Darrell Hammond Copy Share Image
The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy -… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
On the other hand, there are plenty of red flags that link developmental disabilities to things like lead and mercury and pesticides… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
All I can say on the Guilford story - and this comes more from my perspective as a father than an artist… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
The first idea of Captain Fantastic was a pretty radically different one. The genesis had to do with parenting and questions about… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Drug addiction is an incredibly difficult challenge to manage on one's own. When I think of all the stories I've heard from… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be… — Obert Skye Copy Share Image
The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
What kind of life am I setting up for her (her = daughters)...It's not just about making them, like, not be assholes,… — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I… — Kaitlin Olson Copy Share Image
Have compassion for your humanity and your flaws. You're human and you're going to make mistakes. Look at yourself through the eyes… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing… — Naveen Andrews Copy Share Image
I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow. — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication. — James Merrill Copy Share Image
No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Some parents won't love you or accept who you are. It hurts, but It's not your fault that they aren't loving you… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
I went home and they seemed... my parents seemed normal. They didn't seem to feel like somehow they had been victims of… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
![“I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents who founded a Unitarian Church. We lived in a little frame house, and my bedroom was just down the hall from the kitchen. My favorite memories of childhood are of the smell of…” quote by Frances Moore Lappé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9b/frances-moore-lapp-4271_bedroom_i-think-back-to-when-i-was-growing-up-in_1055527.jpg)
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