“My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.” GivingPersonsParentDifferencesTaughtImportanceMaking A DifferenceMy SisterGiving Back Author:Beyonce Knowles
“Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked about the importance of making a first impression and that's stayed with me.” FirstsParentGrowing UpGrowingFashionStyleImportanceImpressionAtlantaFirst Impression Author:Cam Newton
“What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.” NeedsChildrenFactsValuesIndividualSocialParentReligiousResponsibilityHonestyMembersEthicsImportanceCleanRelativeWork EthicFidelityFamily MembersFamily ValuesRelationships With OthersIndividual ResponsibilityClose RelationshipClean Living Author:David Elkind
“Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in the life of the child. This mutuality of knowledge, understanding, and empathy comes not only with a recognition of the child as the central purpose for the collaboration but also with a recognition of the need to maintain roles and relationships with children that are comprehensive, dynamic, and differentiated.” NeedsChildrenSchoolPurposeParentUnderstandingRolesTeacherDemandEmpathyImportanceCriticalRecognitionProductiveCollaborationParticipationComprehensiveParents And Teachers Author:Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
“As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.” AbleParentMembersImportanceCongressMeaningfulLoved OnesBurial Author:Jon Porter
“I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish or Muslim, there are certain rules and regulations. But my parents instilled in me the importance of defining God for yourself.” HomeChristianCertainParentGrewGrew UpImportanceOrthodoxRegulationDefiningRules And RegulationsChristian Home Author:Vera Farmiga
“My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me on skis when I was one and a half. I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn't like. They didn't push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.” DifferentKidsAgeOrderCultureSportsParentWaterHalfActivityUnderstoodImportanceFortunateExposingSkisSkiingDifferent Cultures Author:Benoit Lecomte
“I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of the rigidities of pediatric tradition, particularly in infant feeding. It emphasized the importance of great differences between individual babies, of the need for flexibility and of the lack of necessity to worry constantly about spoiling.” NeedsBookWantedIndividualParentDifferencesWorryBabyTraditionImportanceFeedingSupportiveFlexibilityInfantRigidity Author:Benjamin Spock
“My parents always stressed the importance of education, working hard in school and learning as much as possible. They also encouraged me to value myself and believe in myself and do what I thought was right for me.” BelieveHardSchoolValuesParentImportanceStressedImportance Of Education Author:Hillary Clinton
“It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is... Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenMatterCharacterHelpingTodayValuesChoicesFatherParentRoomsLeaderCareersPovertySuccessfulTvsCallingProgramHollywoodImportanceLifestyleNewspapersBrownPrimeImmoralMurphyCareer WomenSuccessful CareerPrime TimeLifestyle ChoicesMurphy Brown Author:Dan Quayle
“An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to "teach" their children. We should help parents understand the overriding importance of incidental teaching in the context of warm, consistent companionship. Such caring is usually the greatest teaching, especially if caring means sharing in the activites of the home.” IfsShouldMeanChildrenLittlesHelpingHomeParentAbilityNumbersTeachTeachingImportanceCaringWarmConsistentCompanionship Author:Raymond S. Moore
“As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.” ChildrenIndividualParentPovertyEffectsTaughtKeysImportanceSevereImprovingIlliteracyImportance Of Education Author:Naveen Jain
“My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted.” DifferentKidsOpportunityParentGoalCoupleImportanceGrantedNormDifferent TimesImportance Of EducationInterracial Couple Author:Kevin Hart
“My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed that anything was possible with hard work, and they particularly stressed the importance of education. They instilled that same belief in my sister and me.” LittlesHardBeliefParentPoorTeacherCollegeHard WorkGrewGrew UpImportanceMy SisterStressedImportance Of EducationPoor Family Author:Samuel Alito
“My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models, and they would say, you should want to be like Miss Gardiner, you should want to be like Mr. Freeman, or be like your dad. Shun the people who don't value education.” PeopleWantShouldValuesParentRolesTeacherMissingLike YouDadModelsImportanceEducatedMinistersRole ModelsYour DadFreemanValue Of EducationImportance Of EducationCognizant Author:David C. Driskell
“I'm fortunate to have some really great people around me, my fiancee being one, my parents being another. Over the last couple of years, I feel like I've figured out the importance of continuing to learn and the development of the brain and how the brain hooks up with the body.” PeopleParentBrainCoupleImportanceReally GreatHookGreat PeopleHook Up Author:Randall Cobb
“Well, if you can't then write in the press or put on television the importance of parents changing what they're doing, then the safe way out is to say, "Look, learning disabilities is probably genes. ADHD, probably genes." And that is the political alternative to not blaming the victim.” WritingPoliticalParentImportanceVictimBlameDisabilityAdhdLearning Disability Author:Jerome Kagan
“When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.” MayChildrenSchoolParentWindClothesShotsImportanceLegacyRelativeHouseholdMultipleSiblingAll The BestBest FoodBest School Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.” GivingHardParentMoralHard WorkGloryImportance Author:Junior Seau
“I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsImportantCareParentNumbersOne ThingHonestySafeImportanceImportant ThingsTake Care Of Yourself Author:Emma Stone
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” LooksMayChildrenFunnyParentLosesFamilyImportanceClassicSarcasmSarcasticMisfortunesFavouriteEarnestCarelessnessFunny ParentingImportance Of Being EarnestFunny FamilyWittiestFavourite BookLosing A Parent Author:Oscar Wilde
“Annabeth, thank goodness, would be staying in New York. She'd gotten permission from her parents to attend a boarding school in the city so she could be close to Olympus and oversee the rebuilding efforts. "And close to me?" I asked. "Well, someone's got a big sense of his own importance." But she laced her fingers through mine. I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought—just maybe—we were off to a good start.” WellsBigsWould BeSchoolParentEffortCitiesNew YorkBuildingMinesGoodnessImportanceFingersPermanentRememberedStayingPermissionRebuildingAnnabethOlympusBuilding Something Author:Rick Riordan
“Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.” ChildrenMomentsParentImportanceWitnessImpressed Author:John Irving
“Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.” WayFeelsChildrenHardFactsFoundParentHard WorkOffersResearchImportanceApprovalGiftedAsianPsychologistHighlightsCarolsWesternersStanford Author:Amy Chua
“The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.” StrongParentSacrificeBrotherDevelopmentIntellectualImportanceEncouragementPreparedMy BrotherParamountIntellectual Development Author:Jerome Isaac Friedman
“The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.” ChildrenPurposeParentEnjoyFamilyFiveFourChildhoodImportancePrime Author:Jim Trelease
“Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm sure. It breaks my heart to think that there are kids out there, ready to have their imaginations lit on fire, excited and wanting to read, and facing naked shelves in their school or local libraries. Rather than complain or wait till the system stops failing our nation's children this is a matter I feel we must take into our own hands. There are children, right now, waiting-wanting to read. What shall we tell them>” ThinkingFeelsHeartChildrenMatterShowsHandsKidsSchoolReadingNationsWaitingParentDifficultImaginationBreakGrowing UpFireGrowingFailingReadyMy HeartRight NowTasksImportanceLibraryExcitedComplainingLocalsNakedThroatShow MeShelvesLitBreaking My HeartDifficult TasksImportance Of ReadingCramming Author:Nathan Fillion
“The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly love and care for one another. We sense the importance of these relationships when we realize that our greatest expressions of joy or pain in mortality come from the members of our families” CarePainJoySpiritParentRealizingExpressionHonorMembersImportanceSacredOur FamilyHeavenlyMortalityEchoesCommandmentsSublimeFamily RelationshipLove And CareHeavenly Love Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empathic is something which can be developed by training. Therapists, parents and teachers can be helped to become empathic. This is especially likely to occur if their teachers and supervisors are themselves individuals of sensitive understanding. It is most encouraging to know that this subtle, elusive quality, of utmost importance in therapy, is not something one is "born with", but can be learned, and learned most rapidly in an empathic climate.” IfsKnowsWayPersonsImportantIndividualParentUnderstandingBornAbilityQualityTeacherEmpathyTrainingImportanceClimateStatementsTherapySensitiveSubtleElusiveTherapistsParents And TeachersSupervisorsMost Encouraging Author:Carl Rogers
“I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to Invest Money for Financial Security, How to be a Parent, How to Create Good Relationships, and How to Create and Maintain Self-Esteem and Self-Worth. Can you imagine what a whole generation of adults would be like if they had been taught these subjects in school along with their regular curriculum?” IfsMindChildrenImportantSelfWholeSeemsWould BeSchoolEnergyParentTeachImagineGenerationsSubjectsSecuritySelf EsteemTaughtBattleWasteUnderstoodAdultsImportanceFinancialSelf WorthHandleEsteemFinanceCurriculumHaving ChildrenGood RelationshipPower Of ThoughtFinancial SecuritySubjects In School Author:Louise Hay
“Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult.” GivingChildrenImportantParentGoalGrowing UpGrowingAdultsImportance Author:L. Ron Hubbard