“Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?” PeopleLittlesTwoWarKidsThreeBitsParentMemoriesPoorWifeThousandLittle BitDiedSoldierZeroEntitledPoor PeopleGround Zero Author:Carl Paladino
“Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.” IfsThinkingWorldLittlesSaidStillsPlayKidsParentPlay Dates Author:Jerry Spinelli
“I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.” KnowsLittlesSeemsSpiritualParentUnderstandingMy OwnGenerationsFitFulfillmentSearch For Meaning Author:Radhanath Swami
“I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesFacesFatherParentPoorTasteNegativeBritainSwimmingSay AnythingGleePoor TasteLittle Britain Author:David Walliams
“It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.” LittlesKidsParentRaisesAccountability Author:Ben Marcus
“I've run out of mates that haven't had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I've been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.” ThinkingFeelsLittlesLongDoeFactsRunningAbleYoungBitsParentHavensBabyLittle BitSelfishMates Author:Nick Moran
“In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.” YearsLittlesTwoKidsParentSoundDogAverageIncomeHouseholdFenceNew OrleansWorking Parents Author:Anthony Mackie
“I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.” LittlesImportantEnoughAbleWantedParentUnderstandingSuccessfulCollegeLuckyPursueBeing Successful Author:Allison Williams
“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
“Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.” ChildrenLittlesParentToo Much Book:Two Worlds and Their Ways Source: Two Worlds and Their Ways
“Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This motivates the child to do whatever the parents want in order to regain their favor. This divide-and-conquer technique is often unleashed against children who become a little too independent, threatening the balance of the family system.” WantFeelsChildrenLittlesEnoughOrderParentBalanceGainsIndependentAffectionTechniqueFavorsConquerCompareTargetDividesToxicThreateningSiblingParentalUnleashedDivide And Conquer Author:Susan Forward
“Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.” MindLittlesEnoughParentDesignBe GoodInsecurityGood EnoughRest Of Your LifeInfluentialCreepyBeing Good EnoughNot Being Good Enough Author:Kim Basinger
“I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.” ThinkingLittlesParentMy FamilyDevoted Author:Lady Gaga
“It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist's hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross” LittlesSelfHandsParentSubjectsWeaknessAngelCrossesEndureFleshMotivatedBowsSubmitSacramentsBaptists Author:Bernard of Clairvaux
“My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.” LittlesArtMadeParentSawsCrazyCollegeFocusedTheatreGraduatesTraveledBudgeting Author:Jennifer Garner
“Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.” ShouldLittlesMadeStillsMotherFatherParentHalfGenerationsExampleMomDadTerribleFeministDinnerCooksSplitsHouseholdChoresMom And DadHousehold Chores Author:Emily Oster
“In principle the first thing on the stream would be my birth certificate, a little electronic version of that, my parents would put my school records, health records, whatever of their child onto the stream. And the stream continues to flow forward through time.” FirstsChildrenLittlesWould BeSchoolParentPrinciplesRecordsBirthFlowVersionsStreamsRough TimesCertificatesBirth Certificate Author:David Gelernter
“My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.” LittlesStillsTwoSchoolParentFitClothesToughCatholicAfrican AmericanNeighborhoodLots Of MoneyCatholic School Author:Ryan Coogler
“Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.” IfsChildrenLittlesBookSelfParentPresidentEnvyTheeBarkChivalry Author:Edmund Spenser
“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.” WayYearsChildrenLittlesKidsMotherFatherFeltParentBlackTermWhiteResponsibilityAudienceSawsColorTvsSmarterLittle KidSitcomManipulativeCaregivers Author:Bill Cosby