“I guess there are some rights of parents with what they choose their children to learn, but I'm biased in favor of freeing children to learn and not letting parents be too doctrinaire in indoctrinating their children.” ChildrenParentRightsFavorsBiased Author:Richard Dawkins
“After I graduated from high school, one of the former workers on our farm asked if I would be willing to join him in selling Fuller brushes through the summer. It seemed like a perfect way to make some money for college. And being away from my parents and learning to make my own way gave me self confidence.” IfsWaySelfWould BeSchoolParentMy OwnPerfectCollegeWillingSummerHigh SchoolWorkersSelf ConfidenceSellingFormerFarmsBrushes Author:Billy Graham
“In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows in and milk. In high school I milked about twenty cows every morning and about twenty in the afternoon when I got home. I have wonderful memories from those early days when my parent's influence was so strong.” HomeSchoolThreeStrongParentMemoriesMorningWonderfulInfluenceHigh SchoolMy FamilyTwentiesClockAfternoonMilkCowsEvery MorningBarnsWonderful Memories Author:Billy Graham
“Every day I look for ways to be inspired, to learn and to grow. And trying to be the best for my kids, my husband and my family. One thing I really wanna do is being there for my kids, be part of my siblings and my parents.” WayTryingLooksKidsGrowsParentOne ThingHusbandMy FamilyInspiredBeing The BestMy HusbandSiblingBeing ThereBe InspiredMy Siblings Author:Mia Hamm
“My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.” IdeasJobsParentLosesDisasterPaychecks Author:Gary Shteyngart
“Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents.” ChildrenImportantCountryParentAnd LoveAssets Author:Nelson Mandela
“I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.” YearsIdeasHelpingWantedParentFourCollegeMonthsDecidedNo IdeaHelp MeFour YearsReeds Author:Steve Jobs
“To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.” NeedsCareEnergyParentEmotionalTake CareOur FamilyTake Care Of YourselfGood ParentEmotional Energy Author:Michelle Obama
“The more valuable you become [in your company], the more influence you have, the better communicator you are, you manage your time better, and you recognize people for their contributions. You also become more valuable as a spouse, parent and friend.” PeopleParentCompanyInfluenceValuableManageContributionSpouseCommunicators Author:Jim Rohn
“My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's where a lot of my comedy comes from. Not only was the maid very funny and witty, but when my mother came home I'd use humour to try and get her attention. If I made mommy laugh, then maybe everything would be all right. I think that's where it [my comedy] all started.” IfsThinkingTryingMadeUseHomeWould BeMotherParentAttentionLaughingComedyChildhoodHumourLonelyRaisedWittyMaidsFunny And Witty Author:Robin Williams
“I am utterly against any kind of guilt. Remember it always: if you start feeling guilty about something around me, then you are doing it on your own, then you are still carrying the voices of your parents, the priests within you; you have not yet heard me, you have not yet listened to me. I want you to be totally free of all guilt.” IfsWantKindStillsFeelingsRememberParentVoiceHeardGuiltGuiltyPriestsWithin YouI Want YouFeeling Guilty Author:Rajneesh
“Parents create guilt. That is the greatest sin against humanity. To create guilt in a child is criminal because once the guilt is created, the child will never be free of it. Unless he is very intelligent it will be impossible for him to get rid of it; something of it will remain around him like a hangover.” ChildrenHumanityParentSinImpossibleIntelligentGuiltCriminalsHangover Author:Rajneesh
“Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. A very simple, but very cunning trick to manipulate you. They have condemned you, because if you are accepted, not condemned - loved, appreciated, and if it is relayed to you from everywhere that you are okay - then it will be difficult to control you. How to control a person who is absolutely okay? The very problem doesn`t arise.” IfsWayPersonsProblemParentDifficultSimplePoliticianOkayGuiltCreatorAcceptedTricksArisePriestsControlledAppreciatedCunningManipulate Author:Rajneesh
“If you really want to drop the guilt you will have to drop your parental voices within, the priestly voices within. You will have to get rid of your parents and your conditioning. Life has been in such a trap up to now that even a small child starts feeling guilty. We have not yet been able to develop an education which can help people to grow without feeling guilty. And unless that education happens man will remain ill, ill at ease.” PeopleIfsMenWantChildrenHas BeensHelpingFeelingsHappensAbleGrowsParentVoiceGuiltIllGuiltyEaseWithin YouTrapsConditioningParentalSmall ChildFeeling Guilty Author:Rajneesh
“Most people think that aging is genetic and yet if your parents lived to age 80+ that will add three years to your life.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsAgeThreeParentAddAgingThree Years Author:Deepak Chopra
“I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.” PeopleKnowsChildrenSufferingCultureGivenParentMy OwnDutyDeserveTreatedAfrican AmericanGrandparentHonoredAmerican CultureVery DeepParents And GrandparentsAfrican American Culture Author:Alice Walker
“I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.” WellsTwoHomeMightParentReturnChicagoElsewhereOld FriendsHometownGoing HomeTwo Homes Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.” WantChildrenParentLosesImpossibleChildhoodInnocencePurityBottlesPurity And Innocence Author:Pete Docter
“It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantChildrenImportantPlayMotherParentRaisesContemplatingConsideringRaising ChildrenHaving Children Author:Sarah Ruhl
“My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents want you to go to the next level of whatever, and I decided that I ought to be an architect. I can't tell you why. And I tried, and I had no aptitude for it.” KnowsWantI CanWholeNextParentLevelsBrotherOughtDadDecidedMy DadConstructionArchitectGrandfatherMy GrandfatherNext LevelAptitude Author:Bruce Molsky
“My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. And the way I would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, I'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. I did believe that.” IfsWayBelieveLooksRealStoriesSchoolPurposeParentPracticeTeacherMiddleStudentsModelsStorytellingJustifyHeritageTelling StoriesMiddle SchoolCultural HeritageOdysseyIliad Author:Philip Pullman
“You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.” WantIdeasWholeJobsFatherParent Author:Jeff Bridges
“I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.” ThinkingChildrenParentBornDifficultyDetermine Author:Andrew Solomon
“With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.” ChildrenSaidLanguageParentAssuming Author:Andrew Solomon
“I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.” PeopleFactsWould BeFatherFeltParentDifficultCircumstancesMetsInspiredAnxiousBeing A FatherGood ParentDifficult Circumstances Author:Andrew Solomon
“I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.” PeopleChildrenWantedParentGriefGayGay People Author:Andrew Solomon
“The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.” WorldChildrenStillsIdeasWould BeLeftGrowsParentGrowing UpChangedGayHomosexualGay Parents Author:Andrew Solomon
“Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to people who think the quick fix for education is to threaten people. It's not a left-right division.” PeopleIfsThinkingKidsSchoolLeftParentResultsTeacherProducePressureDivisionParents And TeachersQuick Fixes Author:Deborah Meier
“Of course parents want their children to confide in them.” WantChildrenCoursesParent Author:Dirk Nowitzki
“For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.” FeelsLongMadePlayParentChristChurchGrowing UpGrowingGrewInvolvedBandGrew UpLong TimeInstrumentsMusicalGuiltyTrumpetsBaggageMusical InstrumentsChurch Of Christ Author:Gary Panter
“Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?” IfsChildrenParentGrewGrew UpElders Author:Barry Hannah
“My parents said they had to make a lot of sacrifices to pay for my education... because they were both druids.” SaidHumorFunnyParentPaySacrificeDruids Author:Milton Jones
“When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "Emo, don't go near the cellar door!" One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun.” HumorKidsFunnyUsedParentSunSawsNiceWonderfulDoorsTreeStrangeFlowerOne DayGrassWonderful ThingsCellarsEmo Author:Emo Philips
“I'm the youngest, too. When you're the youngest of a big family, people are like, "You're the baby, you're spoiled!" The fact of the matter is, when you're the youngest of a big family, by the time you're a teenager, your parents are insane. You're like, "Hey, I'm going roller-skating-" "You're not going roller-skating or you'll end up pregnant like your sister. Why don't you smoke pot and become a lawyer?"” PeopleEndsMatterFactsHumorBigsFunnyParentLike YouBabyLawyerInsaneHeySmokeTeenagerPotPregnantSpoiledSkatingBig FamiliesRoller Skating Author:Jim Gaffigan
“And some people say Jesus wasn't Jewish. Of COURSE he was Jewish! 30 years old, single, lives with his parents, come on! He works in his father's business, his mom thought he was God's gift, he's Jewish! Give it up!” PeopleGivingYearsHumorFunnyCoursesFatherJesusParentMomSingle Life Author:Robin Williams
“My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.” HumorFunnyParentRadioLike MeToysBathtubsBlendersTransistors Author:Rodney Dangerfield
“When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."” WantSaidHumorKidsFunnyParentFiveThousandDollarsNotesThey SaidNo RespectKidnapped Author:Rodney Dangerfield
“I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.” ParentSidesCitiesNew YorkGrewGrew UpVillageNew York CityEquationsBohemianNonconformistGreenwichGreenwich Village Author:Anne Waldman
“I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work. At 12 I was emancipated from my parents so I could sign my first record deal. I think I was born working!” ThinkingFirstsParentBornDealsRecords Author:Jessica Simpson
“I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.” MeanPlayUsedCertainSongParentRecordsEventsHugeSingingMy FamilyRaisedPopsIntroductionPop MusicQuiz Author:Eric Hutchinson
“My parents say that I was singing before I could talk. I personally remember specific moments at three or four when music was playing literally all over the house.” MomentsRememberThreeHouseParentFourSinging Author:Tori Kelly
“I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told me to be quiet, turn the music down or anything like that. So I felt pretty free and experimental as a kid to kind of figure out my own voice.” KindKidsTurnsHouseFeltParentVoiceMy OwnFiguresQuietLimitsGenre Author:Tori Kelly
“When I was young I was very close to my parents. I never liked staying at my mates' houses, I always wanted to be with my parents and then suddenly at 17 I was like, "Oh well, maybe I should just move half way around the world."” WorldWayShouldWellsWantedMovingYoungHouseParentHalfAround The WorldStayingMatesOh WellHalf Way Author:Gregg Sulkin
“I went from living with my parents, to being signed out of high school. I have never, not had a boss, or someone else responsible for me. It is really cool as an artist to have that freedom.” SchoolArtistParentHigh SchoolResponsibleBossReally CoolBeing A Parent Author:Tyler Hilton
“At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three young children, I had to start to plan my future after dance even though I dreaded about.” YearsChildrenAgeLastsYoungThreeParentCareersPlansI RealizedBalletMy FutureYoung Children Author:Li Cunxin
“She got really mad a month ago, because she had e-mailed me a naked picture of herself - which is a nice thing to do - but then I messed up, and I accidentally forwarded that e-mail to both of my parents. Now, my girlfriend is furious, mortified, but I don't even care, 'cause now I have to call up my mother and say 'Mom, I am so sorry - that picture was just for dad.'” HumorCareFunnyMotherCausesParentNiceMomMonthsDadMadSorryNakedThings To DoGirlfriendMailMy GirlfriendNice ThingsFuriousMessed UpI Am So Sorry Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“We just found out my little brother has a peanut allergy, which is very serious I know. But still I feel like my parents are totally overreacting - they caught me eating a tiny little bag of airline peanuts and they kicked me out of his funeral.” KnowsFeelsLittlesStillsHumorFunnyFoundParentSeriousBrotherEatingCaughtTinyBagsFuneralAirlinePeanutsAllergiesLittle BrotherMy Little Brother Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“No parents. You have Uncle Jesse, forever in overalls. Then there's Bo and Duke. What do they do? I never saw them working for food or gas money. You can only kill so many possum.” HumorFunnyParentForeverSawsGasUnclesDukesOverallsPossumsGas Money Author:Bill Engvall