“My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.” YearsHas BeensTogetherParentStubbornQuitter Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.” WritingHas BeensKidsSchoolParentGrowing UpGrowingKids Growing Up Author:Tom Perrotta
“I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.” PeopleWantHas BeensFallFatherParentWant MeMentorStay TrueTrue To Myself Author:Nicole Richie
“Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me...” LongHas BeensEndsReasonMotherParentDifficultInterestSuccessfulNiceHappenedLuckyProveLong TimeThe End Of The DayMumLong Time AgoProve MyselfYour Mum Author:Stuart Rose
“I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.” FirstsLongHas BeensJobsHateParentKnownTeacherCollegeWorriedAssumptionEmsRest Of Your Life Author:Jack McBrayer
“If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?” IfsChildrenHas BeensHelpingCareSchoolParentSuccessfulCollegeHigh SchoolChild Care Author:Lamar Alexander
“I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.” Has BeensHardAbleParentRoomsWatchesSonBlessedEnlightenedLocks Author:A. Scott Berg
“My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.” MeanDoeHas BeensImportantHardParentKnowingShareHard WorkTomorrowSurvivedGreedyDnaGreat DepressionExtravagance Author:David Suzuki
“My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.” Has BeensParentSupporter Author:Mariel Zagunis
“My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.” Has BeensFatherGrowsParentGrowing UpInfluenceProfoundDivorced Author:Laura Linney
“Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go and explore your feelings and thoughts about it. In your writing, you might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now or even your career. How is this experience related to who you would like to become, who you have been in the past, or who you are now?.” PeopleWantWritingHas BeensFeelingsMightPastNextParentEmotionCareersFourChildhoodLetting GoWho You AreUpsetYour ChildrenTiesRelatedOur RelationshipI Want You Author:James W. Pennebaker
“Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent.” Has BeensIdeasStatesActionFormScienceCertainParentAnimalExistenceOpinionForeverGenerationsEvolutionHabitPhilosopherProductionsThis LifeAcquireImmortalSentimentsContinuingAfter DeathIngeniousPropensity Author:Erasmus Darwin
“I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I thought to myself how lucky I was that my parents' and grandparents' generation had the vision and the determination to save it for us. Now it is our turn to make our own gift outright to those who will come after us, 15 years, 40 years, 100 years from now. I want to be as faithful to my grandchildren's generation as Old Faithful has been to ours. What better way can we add a new dimension to our third century of freedom?” WayWantYearsFirstsHas BeensInspirationBeautifulRememberTurnsParentVisionGenerationsLandCenturyLuckyFirst TimeDeterminationThirdsAddFaithfulDimensionsStationsGrandparentGrandchildrenBetter WaysRangersCanyonsMy GrandchildrenParents And GrandparentsBeautiful Land Author:Gerald R. Ford
“Children who are brought up with one parent or another parent or shared parenthood, when there has been a divorce and hatred within families, it breeds a tremendous amount of instability in the life of a child. And many of these children end up in the homosexual movement. Even if they don't, they take so much baggage into their marriages, that they are unable sometimes, at least theoretically unable, to stand against all of the cultural forces that would disrupt them and their families.” IfsChildrenHas BeensEndsSometimesForceParentMovementAmountHatredDivorceParenthoodHomosexualBaggageInstability Author:Erwin W. Lutzer
“My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.” Has BeensTogetherMotherCertainParentLossResultsWonderfulAmountMarriedTeenagerWorking TogetherAutonomyInvolvingWonderful Marriage Author:Jessica Valenti
“Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.” PeopleBelieveHas BeensHardDoneYoungParentTeacherAdviceValuableMentorHard To Believe Author:Lauren Conrad
“No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.” KnowsWorldHas BeensParentKnownKnow HowCircumstancesIllusionErrorsIllExperimentsPerceiveGermsSpoilt Author:Louis Pasteur
“Reading... there have been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no new problem you could have - with your parents, with school, with a bully, with anything. There's no problem you can have that someone hasn't already solved and wrote about it in a book.” PeopleHas BeensBookProblemSchoolReadingParentMillionsBillionsBullyNo Problem Author:Will Smith