The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled. — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do. — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house. — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It's a lot of pressure as a parent trying to get your kids to eat healthily and it doesn't always work out. — Frankie Bridge Copy Share Image
I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
When were small & young¦ it is our parent duty to look after us & teach us whats suppose to be done… — Norshiratu Tikus Copy Share Image
I would love to leave my children and grandchildren a nicer world than the one I am going to leave them. But… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, a lot of my parents' friends were in the music business. In the late '60s and early… — Slash Copy Share Image
She took out a shiny folded pamphlet, the kind they kept stacked in clear plastic stands in hospital waiting rooms. "How to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with… — Julie Salamon Copy Share Image
Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
I preach with the hope that whoever is inspired, encouraged, intrigued, curious by my life on any level, whether it be parents… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
I was really strict about my daughter sleeping in her own room, and now she's really independent and likes it that way.… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
We need to remember the purpose of our service to one another. If it were only to accomplish some part of His… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Some children do what they’re told to do; some children do what they’re told not to do; all children do what they’re… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
On your birthday thank your parents and celebrate with them. They are the reason you are here and it is their day… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you… — Toni Trucks Copy Share Image
Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was… — Rob Mariano Copy Share Image
I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months… — Linda Evans Copy Share Image
I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose - you drop into a different kind of serious. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
If his/her siblings and parents are not treated and he/she is strong enough to continue the recovery, a sibling will take up… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
