Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light. — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
My father was in the army, and there wasn't too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life,… — Suresh Raina Copy Share Image
You have to decide what it is that shapes and defines you. I'm a big sister and a co-parent with my mom… — Kiersey Clemons Copy Share Image
The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated,… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
When I was born, my father was in jail. He only had me because it was going to get him a lesser… — Angelina Pivarnick Copy Share Image
Never forget two people in your life… The person who lost everything just to make you win. [your father] The person who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
And being that my father is gone in immigrant and I have you know - that I owe my existence to immigration,… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
“Sorry I missed our last session, but I saw my mother and I needed some time to pick myself back up off… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
It is his life and he has to decide what he wants to become. Just as I got freedom from my parents,… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
As a mother, May always reminds me of the end of the school year and the excitement, uncertainty, anticipation, and accomplishment that… — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“this eldest son of the schoolmaster and the clerk of the parish had at fourteen received an education from parents, nature, and… — George Smith Copy Share Image
What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Children hates parents advice but you have to know their love must be hide in their advice so take parents advice positively. — Myself Copy Share Image
I've never actually known anything other than nutritious foods. I've grown up with a mother who is a doctor, dentist and cancer… — Kelly Gale Copy Share Image
“Nothing wrong with the way your mother looks. First thing in the morning, last thing at night, and every hour in between,… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
Often parents themselves will not have liked education and may not have done well in education. But actually we need to explain… — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
I think at the end of the day, the way my father looks at it is if the script is solid, if… — Zayed Khan Copy Share Image
Some of my earliest memories, from when I was six or seven, are of going to see Pedro Infante movies and telling… — Vicente Fernandez Copy Share Image
As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I'm a father now. I got to man up and be the best father I can be, which means I have to… — Danny Garcia Copy Share Image
And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“A parent who is respectful to his children and teaches them with dignity and respect will be respected by his children.” — Tedd Tripp Copy Share Image
I am very happy for the respect shown towards my father, Raj Kapoor-ji, the greatest showman of Hindi cinema. — Randhir Kapoor Copy Share Image
I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
My father 'Pappy' who is black, is from Galveston and Fort Worth, Texas. My mother, who is white, is from San Diego. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I don't give up; I go down fighting in everything I do - being a mother, being a wife, being a wrestler,… — Lacey Evans Copy Share Image
When a man doesn't want to be a father he's a deadbeat. When a woman doesn't want to be a mother, she's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is… — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery,… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“When the best you can get from your wife’s father is that he won’t help to kill you, it doesn’t take a… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.” — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
![“Never forget two people in your life… The person who lost everything just to make you win. [your father] The person who was with you in every pain [your mother]” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64c/anonymous-1_family_never-forget-two-people-in-your-life-the_2129215.jpg)
![“From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.” quote by Aberjhani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/801/aberjhani-1814_cousin_from-her-gospel-singing-mother-cissy-hou_3083965.jpg)
