“I came to this country when I was twelve years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.” WantGivingYearsCountryWantedOpportunityParentPresidentChanceSucceedGive MePresident ObamaNew Opportunity Author:Cristina Saralegui
“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.” IfsWorldHardWould BeKidsWantedSchoolJobsAmericaFeltParentChanceClassCareersGrowing UpGrowingMiddleMiddle ClassGood School Author:Al Franken
“No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not connected to power, you have a chance in this country to go as far as your talent and your work will take you.” CountryMatterParentBornChancePoorTalentLike YouCircumstancesConnected Author:Marco Rubio
“There are parents out there screaming as if their kid is going to be in the big leagues someday. C'mon. I chew them out if I see that. Maybe they've got their own idea how to do things, but it's wrong. Just be with the kids. Let 'em make errors. Give them all a chance. It's not about winning. It's spirit, togetherness.” IfsGivingIdeasBigsKidsSpiritWinningParentChanceErrorsLeagueEmsSomedayTogetherness Author:Tommy Lasorda
“Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.” WellsCharacterAgeSpeakParentChanceFiveThousandTwentiesCleanPhotographAverageThirtyJustifiedInitialsTwenty FiveBirthrightNicknamesCompositesClean Living Book:Average Jones Source: Average Jones
“Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.” ChildrenTodayAmericaHouseParentBornChanceGrowing UpGrowingCoupleMarriedEuropeReverenceUnitsSwedenUnmarriedMarried Couples Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.” GivingChildrenBeautifulParentRealizingChanceWonderOriginalsDrivingCommonplaceDepriving Book:My life Source: My life
“The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about themselves, their parents, their friends -- and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.” GivingWritingKindChildrenFeelingsRunningParentChanceRaceSituationNovelSubjectsAdultsMercyResponse Author:Nina Bawden
“Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.” KnowsBelieveMightParentChanceBelieve In Me Author:Patti Page
“I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.” YearsHomeFormThreeLeftParentChanceFootballNeededBallsThree YearsDivorcedSecond Chance Author:Vinnie Jones
“When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else.” WellsLastsParentChanceGoneReconciliationMournLast Chance Author:Joan M. Drury
“My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.” YearsSometimesPlayHandsRememberParentChanceMy OwnBridgesFascinated Author:Louis Sachar
“Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case studies all over the world, Kristof and WuDunn present the clearest view I have ever seen of the human soul. A Path Appears tells us whether we are intrinsically good, why specific ways we parent our newborns help predict their chances for success, and how we can live lives of greater significance. This book, full of rich and riveting true stories, reminds us that human greatness is all around us, and even within us, if we dare to look.” PeopleIfsWorldWayHumansLooksBookSoulHelpingStoriesParentChanceViewsCasesStudyPathRichGreaterGreatnessResearchDareLive LifeSignificanceFulfilledHuman SoulTrue StoryCase Studies Author:Ann Curry
“A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.” ShouldChildrenHandsNamesParentChanceLeavingMeaninglessDisposition Book:Frost: Poems Source: Frost: Poems
“Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.” PeopleDreamAmericaFatherParentBornChancePoorJourneyEssenceElectionBarsIslandsAmerican DreamCubaBartenderPoor Family Author:Marco Rubio
“You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different. The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you - you've killed them in a way. Is it destiny? Was it written somewhere that this was to be your life? Is it useful that you are here? Or is it simply by chance?” IfsWayMeanChildrenMadeDifferentMomentsFactsWould BeLife IsParentBornChanceDestinyWrittenBecause Of You Author:Christian Boltanski