I came from a home full of the sounds of my parents performing poems or playing recordings of Robert Graves, WB Yeats… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
Kerala is doing well because here the kids are encouraged to compete in sports, both by parents and teachers in schools. — P. T. Usha Copy Share Image
My alcoholism was an illness. It was in my DNA, my genes. Both my parents were addicts and I have an addictive… — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
I never dreamed, when I received a small table for a Christmas present from my parents, I would have the career that… — Stephen Hendry Copy Share Image
You know, we all become parts of our parents later on in life, and I was lucky enough to latch onto their… — Steve Doocy Copy Share Image
My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and taught us to love it in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The… — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books,… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist.… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
Parents want their children to excel, callers to a victims' hot line want help, and sick people want to get well. Offering… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
I intentionally leave adults out in my stories, not to say that they're not in charge or that they don't care, or… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
I credit my parents for many things that had never seemed remarkable when I was growing up, and one of those things… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all… — Martha MacIsaac Copy Share Image
In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family with three siblings. My parents were always very supportive and encouraging. It was important for them… — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
I dunno whether it was to do with my parents - we were working-class - but it was important to me to… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Kids are the cutest... but when they grow up so fast and are on there own, you'll regret wishing they weren't little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of… — Bernice Weissbourd Copy Share Image
I think I've actually had a pretty standard upbringing. My parents are really normal, so I've always had them around to keep… — Sophie Lowe Copy Share Image
I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
My parents never discouraged me. There were a couple times when my dad criticized a couple things that I did, but it… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“If you had yourself cloned, who exactly, would be your parents? Can you raise yourself? I guess so. And it might be… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I was the straight-A student but sort of a little bit of debating my parents all the time, trying to find when… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over… — John Rosemond Copy Share Image
Children are a sacred gift from a loving Heavenly Father. Children are an heritage of the Lord (Ps. 127:3). The more I… — Patricia P. Pinegar Copy Share Image
Our parents didn't let us watch a lot of television growing up. We had Disney on Sunday nights, and at 8:30, they… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
There's a drive in us to express ourselves in some way or form. We pick up whatever material is available. It's primitive.… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day… — Lindsay Lohan Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most flattering things in the world is for parents to write to me saying their children want… — George Clarke Copy Share Image
I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that,… — Olesya Rulin Copy Share Image
It's a very hard goal. But, what I want is to tell people who are getting bullied to stand up to the… — JoJo Siwa Copy Share Image
The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
