we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age. — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
Little problems become big problems. Parents are more attached to work than family. Kid's have computers & gaming devices as best friends. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Both my parents lived through a world war. My grandparents lived through two world wars. And they didn't go around saying, 'Look… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
My parents broke many rules, so I guess thinking 'outside the box' has been slowly but surely developing in my family -… — Rekha Sharma Copy Share Image
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded… — Bar Paly Copy Share Image
I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a… — James Roday Copy Share Image
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take… — Heyward Ewart Copy Share Image
My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They… — Stephen Elop Copy Share Image
Minority and low-income parents are just as capable as wealthy parents of identifying schools that are providing a first class education. Stop… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
As parents, we'll go to the ends of the earth for our kids. As soon as they're born - and during pregnancy… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents,… — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
My parents are musicians. I was listening to the radio and recording songs off the radio on cassette tapes and playing guitars… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
Life was simple and the credit goes to my parents. They decided to bring us up in a certain way and kept… — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
I grew up in Paris and in Japan. My parents didn't have any kind of glamorous jobs or anything - it just… — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
My parents have done a tremendous job, over the course of my career. They try to make every game and I think… — C. J. McCollum Copy Share Image
I grew up with white parents, and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I'm in prison. Come fetch… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I have been educated my whole entire life, whether it's through my parents, through my coaches, through my agent, through teachers, through… — Francisco Lindor Copy Share Image
That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all.… — George Grove Copy Share Image
Parents ought to feel more comfortable about the care of their children than some experts would seem to permit. If children were… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Like the Caribbean Windrush generation, my parents came to this country from the Commonwealth in the 1960s. They, too, came to help… — Sajid Javid Copy Share Image
My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of 'Les Miserables' in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at… — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Scriabin, as you know, is a mystic composer. His music is supersensuous, superromantic, and supermysterious. Everything is super; it is all a… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents,… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
“It’s a mistake to believe that they (parents) are responsible for their children’s best future. This responsibility is on their children, and… — Lukasz Laniecki Copy Share Image
My parents were obsessed with us being normal kids, so I never knew movie stars. They didn't want us to be Hollywood… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
Ever notice your Parents spend The First 18 Months Trying To Make You Stand Up And Talk. And The Next 18 Years… — Ritu Copy Share Image
When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
