Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools. — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
There were some medical emergencies at home, be it my wife's brain tumour operation, my father's cancer. Eventually we lost him in 2018. — Pratik Gandhi Copy Share Image
I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I'm half-Chinese and half-Caucasian. My grandparents came here from China. My father was born in New Jersey. — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to… — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
My mother came from a very affluent background, very Westernized, while my father was more Eastern. So I've had a very good… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
“Family is a choice?" "It is?" His thumb pressed into my palm firmly. "It's your choice. Parents and siblings are your relations.… — C.L. Stone Copy Share Image
A girl conceived in China has to run an eerie kind of gauntlet if she is to survive. many parents will use… — Steven W. Mosher Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive. They just said, if you're not going to go to college, you have to still be curious… — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I'd had Enough and this was no turn of phrase but a warm body, nervous, with a constitution I could count… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“For a father what greater gift is there than a daughter's heart? Dads, we hold the key to all its complexities. So… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
My parents taught me to be optimistic and independent. They made me feel that I could do anything I set my mind… — Verne Troyer Copy Share Image
“Ha my father just tried to put some music on that wasn't Buble. I just shut his ass the f**k down. We're… — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I asked possible witnesses about the invisible man shaped like a whisper, and nobody saw or heard anything. Which means he was… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“What God did for Jesus in standing up for Him, standing behind Him in life and in death, and in standing in… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
It will be very difficult for whoever will be with me, not even in marriage, whoever goes out with me seriously. Even… — Albert II, Prince of Monaco Copy Share Image
If you look at great reform, it always starts from parents. If you look at the movement to reform the special education… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
“I thought being home might do you good, but … I forget sometimes parents aren’t always … good for their kids.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little. — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers;… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Both my parents were actors and they struggled, so I was raised with that. Being raised in this industry from a young… — Camila Morrone Copy Share Image
I know I will never be able to replace my parents, but over the years I have realized that you aren't able… — Kim Zolciak-Biermann Copy Share Image
The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“George Sanders's had been the best, an Old Hollywood classic, my father had known it by heart and liked to quote from… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Couldnt you see that I loved you? I sat there and stood up for you, I lied too my parents for you.… — Patience Copy Share Image
I had a stage when I was 12 years old. I had a puppet show career. I wrote horror stories in camp,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Don't go running off at the mouth. Let the picture tell the story. No one tunes in to hear you broadcast the… — Marty Glickman Copy Share Image
“A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
My parents are strict, but the most important thing they have taught me is to be humble and kind and to always… — Brooklyn Beckham Copy Share Image
I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“My two parents represent the single greatest influence on my life. And if my dad had been there for me, it would… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it,… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
