“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.” WayFirstsChildrenFormTurnsGrowsParentWhiteCitiesGrowing UpImagineGenerationsStreetsGayBreatheFlightHighwaysObsoleteSuburbsLawnsSkylines Author:Herbert Muschamp
“We are more than we imagine ourselves to be. It's what we tell our children, our parents, our friends. But how often do we tell it to ourselves? And if we do, how often do we prove it? How often do we challenge ourselves to do something new?” IfsChildrenParentChallengesImagineProveOur ChildrenSomething NewProve It Author:Veronica Chambers
“Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.” PeopleWayHeartI CanImportantStoriesSpiritCultureLiteratureParentImaginationImagineBest WayStorytellingHeart To Heart Author:Alice Walker
“As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.” DoeParentLinesMemoriesImagineProgressTreeIntelligentAnalogiesGood MemoriesSplittingAmoebaLife Line Author:Hugh Everett III
“Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.” ShouldYearsNamesParentImagineYears AgoFlattered Author:Bill Gates
“Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.” ThinkingFeelsTryingHardKidsParentImaginePleaseDisappearEveningGrantedMiserableSunset Author:Erma Bombeck
“Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.” IfsFeelsChildrenBookHomeCareReadingAsksParentInterestRoomsImagineStyleSkillsOur ChildrenBreatheTeenagerYour ChildrenPushingUnusualNurtureQuirkyNonconformist Author:Alexandra Robbins
“Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for even the best mother cannot satisfy all her child's wishes and needs. It is not the suffering caused by frustration, however, that leads to emotional illness, but rather the fact that the child is forbidden by the parents to experience and articulate this suffering, the pain felt at being wounded.” NeedsChildrenFactsPainMotherSufferingWishFeltParentImagineChildhoodEmotionalFilledIllnessFrustrationWoundedForbiddenBest Mother Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.” ChildrenJoyParentImagineAbuseChild Abuse Author:Mason Cooley
“It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the influence of seductive, lascivious, prurient, and violent material in books, films, television. A great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.” PeopleThinkingBookReasonKidsFilmParentHoursDealsResponsibilityImagineInfluenceFrontsTelevisionMaterialsTypeViolentFallenCensorshipImagine ThatSeductiveUnspeakableMagical Thinking Author:John Irving
“If you can imagine the area and the land in Cambodia, I mean there are hardly any roads in big parts of the country. The roads they have, in the rainy season, become just mud. So, if you’re somebody that has just one leg, or blind with no arms and you have children and you’re trying to work, and earn some money, and take care of your home, it’s hard enough to be a parent and do all of that normally.” IfsTryingMeanChildrenCountryHardEnoughHomeBigsCareParentImagineLandArmsAreasSeasonsBlindLegsTake CareJust OneMudRainyCambodiaRainy Season Author:Angelina Jolie
“When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I'm sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can't imagine why they kept me.” YearsI CanImportantStoriesMotherFatherParentFiveFourImagineHeardFive YearsSurvivorHolocaustMaking LoveFive Year Olds Author:Christian Boltanski
“At a certain age your parents seem like the most embarrassing thing on the whole entire planet, and you want to be nowhere near them. But at the end of the day, you know that you can't literally do anything without them. You love your parents through and through, and they love you probably even more than you could ever imagine until you're a parent yourself.” KnowsWantEndsWholeSeemsAgeCertainParentImagineLove YouPlanetsThe End Of The DayEmbarrassing Author:Vanessa Hudgens
“I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in response to the father who created me? What's going on here? I think a part of my sense is it's every boy's story. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with.” ThinkingMeanStoriesHomeRunningKidsFatherParentBoysDestinyImagineGrewGrew UpShadowResponseIndividualityGhostRunning AwayImagine ThatCharting Author:Pico Iyer
“As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.” FirstsHumansChildrenSeemsSpiritualIndividualParentHuman BeingsWalksViewsStepsClearImagineEternalAppetiteFirst StepsSteps ForwardEagerness Book:Grace Notes Source: Grace Notes
“I think there's some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police officer or therapist, that empathetic engagement leads to burn-out. Imagine if you're dealing with severely ill children, and you felt their pain all the time, and the pain of their parents - you wouldn't be able to do that job for very long. It would kill you.” IfsThinkingChildrenLongAblePainJobsFeltParentImagineEvidenceDoctorsPoliceIllOfficersEngagementNurseTherapistsPolice OfficerBurn OutEmpathetic Author:Paul Bloom
“Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only imagine the agony she felt. And Eleanor Roosevelt really wanted to make her mother happier, and - and to make her live, you know, make her want to live. And there's something about, you know, when your mother dies, this sense of abandonment. I think Eleanor Roosevelt had a lifelong fear of abandonment and sense of abandonment after her parents' death.” ThinkingKnowsWantAgeWantedFacesMotherDiesFeltParentImagineWallDiedAgonyAbandonmentLifelongEleanorMother Died Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook