I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
You really do have to appreciate your parents as long as they breath, and start to socialize with them no matter what… — MlY AB Copy Share Image
The parents gave you this body and fostered the intelligence and love that are embedded in it; so, gratitude is their due. — Sri Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
My parents were critical to building up my well of strength and resolve that I turn to whenever I'm in a difficult… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
I don't have memories of that time, but my parents were obviously around during the Troubles, and lots of members of my… — Jamie-Lee O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
But I was never, you know, when I see some kids today who are close to their parents, close to their friends...… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are… — Lev Yilmaz Copy Share Image
Any encounter, any situation in which there was a confrontation between us as children and our own parents, or teachers, when we… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
When I grew up on the south side of Chicago, it was kind of a rough neighborhood, and when my parents saw… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure.… — Doug Flutie Copy Share Image
The album that really got me interested in how to create weird sounds, and pretty much changed my life, was 'OK Computer.'… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be in films but didn't want anyone to taunt my parents. So I excelled in studies.… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
“Some secret of nurture withered a generation or two before I arrived, if it had ever existed before among the poor, marginalized… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Many parents are finding out that a pat on the back helps develop character - if given often enough, early enough, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
My parents will be sad for a while, and they may even blame themselves, the way they do now. Eventually they'll come… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I started home-schooling when I was in elementary school because my parents were really busy back then. They didn't have time to… — Rich Brian Copy Share Image
I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just… — Soleil Moon Frye Copy Share Image
I think it's in my blood: both of my parents are very hard workers and were always working when I was growing… — CL Copy Share Image
His name was Fred Rogers. He came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, once upon a time, and his parents, because they were wealthy,… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Yeah, I went to business school and I actually worked as an accountant for about eight months. It's not what I wanted,… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
My parents never really pushed me, but I was so hard on myself. I would say I had some perfectionist quality, to… — Eve Torres Copy Share Image
Always be aware that every moment you are spending money, you are not exchanging commodities but you are spending the time, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's what we do on "MasterChef," on "Junior." No school teachers, no parents, let it go. You're going to go on a… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55… — Sophie Tucker Copy Share Image
“There was no point in telling my father. He'd never let me quit after only one day. He couldn't help me and… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in… — Jackson Rathbone Copy Share Image
Obviously my parents have been a massive influence on me my whole career, taking me around everywhere and putting me in this… — Judd Trump Copy Share Image
I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother’s… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Parents don't now what we are going through, they always say they do but they really don't now what there talking about.… — Sarah Weidener Copy Share Image
I had no financial support from my parents, but, I suppose, I did have moral support - although they really didn't know… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Even though my parents raised me in a very individualistic way, they were also strict and traditional, which was good. It was… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything… — Dominik Garcia-Lorido Copy Share Image
