A lot of things I try to instill in my children comes off of what I've learned from my parents. First of all, you have to lead by example. You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them. So I try to be the best example I can be to them.
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
. . . Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.
The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society. . . [T]he result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Harold Brodie is a louse and a lothario who cheats at cards and has a different girl in his rumble seat every week. That coupe of his is pos-i-tute-ly a petting palace. And he’s a terrible kisser to boot. ” Evie’s parents stared in stunned silence. “Or so I’ve heard.
He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?
People were having sex before I was born. My parents had sex before I was born, nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to stop sex. I'm trying to stop people from dying from sex.
I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.
I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.
If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.
And sometimes when I would get in the morning, when we'd go out - we'd see shrapnel and bits of stuff in the streets and bombed buildings, and - but I was evacuated a lot. Every time the blitz got heavy, my parents would take us off to the country.
Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like to be black.
I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.
The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.
Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform.
As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.