My parents - they tried to become American, they tried to become British, they tried to become Scandinavian - nobody wanted them,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'd like to see a show about what happens to young sports stars who've been pushed too hard by their parents or… — Denise Lewis Copy Share Image
“You’d think a responsible parent or two might’ve uttered the magic words “Settle the fuck down,” but nah.” — Adam Resnick Copy Share Image
The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“Otto said: Try to figure out a way to kill us nicely. You can, of course, drop mother into the well, and… — Väinö Linna Copy Share Image
I have the armour of self-worth that comes from having open-minded parents who felt there was nothing wrong with me. — Mae Martin Copy Share Image
“Life is unfair and there are winners and losers, regardless of how much overprotective parents attempt to shield their offspring from reality.” — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Gangster...Hustler. And I still found time to kiss my mother. Live like I'm dreamin' kick my feet up, gun pulled my waist… — Pusha T (Clipse Copy Share Image
My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“In the wake of Columbine, many people have come forward to share their own stories of hidden pain with me. I find… — Sue Klebold Copy Share Image
“As children develop, their brains "mirror" their parent's brain. In other words, the parent's own growth and development, or lack of those,… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
“In the fifty years my parents were married, in the thousands of conversations my dad had with me, it had just never… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
When Christians forget about hope and tenderness they become a cold Church, that loses its sense of direction and is held back… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The fact was that the woman lived the life she chose, she was happy in that life and it was no one's… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Live your life coz time here on earth is limited. One day you'll face your father heaven & he will ask you… — Jacent Nakato Copy Share Image
Every time you and I bow our heads in surrender to the will of God, we embrace the cross and we manifest… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
“Since you can’t be the perfect father, you’ll be glad to know that your daughter has a Father in heaven who is… — Jay Payleitner Copy Share Image
I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My father wasn't present, so my older brother felt like a father. He was only two years older than me so that… — Saint Jhn Copy Share Image
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“In life or death situations, my father has only been there once for me. So I'd like to tell him thanks for… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I don't consult anyone - not my mother, not my father, anyone - about my work. And I must add that neither… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies. — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It's particularly important as parents in our conversations with our daughters and our sons to consider ideas intimate justice when we talk… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Jill, we became parents so we could tell our kids what to do. Otherwise we're just the tallest people living here. — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
My father initiated me to the Hanuman Chalisa and my mother to the rituals and community feelings of Durga Puja. I still… — Priyanshu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
There's this thing where Asian parents force you to play an instrument at an early age, but god forbid you like it… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother. — Ofra Haza Copy Share Image
I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts. — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd get married to someone from the film industry. I still remember telling my parents that I want to… — Nazriya Nazim Copy Share Image
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