“The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.” SaidKidsLawMotherGuyGivenWifeLove YouOne DayMy WifeComplimentAirportsIn-lawsFamily LoveMother In LawKids LoveWives Love Author:Lionel Richie
“I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.” DoneKidsFilmYoungFatherGivenBlackCareersWatchesHavensSonTypeConceptsPartnershipSuperheroFather SonFather And Son Author:Blair Underwood
“I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.” ShouldLittlesPersonsEndsKidsFightingHouseGivenParentTreeShould HaveFoundationInevitableSundayAfternoonSunday Afternoons Book:The Round House: A Novel Source: The Round House: A Novel
“When I was ambushed by global warming advocates recently - no, they haven't given up - they asked me the same questions they always ask: "What if you're wrong?" and "If you're wrong will you apologize to future generations?" I always answer, "What if you're wrong? Will you apologize to my twenty kids and grandkids for the largest tax increase in American history?" They usually don't have anything to say after that.” IfsKidsAsksGivenAnswersGenerationsHavensTaxesIncreaseTwentiesGlobal WarmingWhat IfAmerican HistoryApologizingFuture GenerationGiven UpGrandkidsTax Increases Author:James Inhofe
“One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.” IfsSaidKidsFatherGivenParentAbilityCoaches Author:Ray Lewis
“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.” PeopleGivingMaySometimesKidsNightDiesFatherGivenGrowsMemoriesSpaceGrowing UpMiddleCarArmsGoes OnSafeCreaturesDiseaseDaughterInfinitePhonesRingsFlyingDisappointMiddle Of The NightOur DaughterActualityFortressesSpeedingInfinite SpaceSpeeding Cars Author:Mary Cantwell
“Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.” ShouldTryingChildrenKidsWantedOpportunityGivenShapesAthlete Author:Joan Cusack