We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

Modeling a behavior is 100x stronger than telling someone to act differently. Kids imitate the habits of their parents. Teammates match the competitive energy of one another. Employees learn to manage like their supervisor. Be...

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

No one ever thinks about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves.

A test may instruct students to compare and contrast something. Well, what does that mean? We have some of the same issues with their homework. We do send home their math worksheets in Spanish and...

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn’t pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the...

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Parents are Blessings ,Blessings brings Happiness ,Keep Parents Happy

The survey contains nothing more than a threat of dire outcomes designed to scare and infuriate parents into supporting $45 million in wasteful spending.

Pais que não conhecem a si mesmo não são capazes de evitar a reprodução, em seus filhos, de suas disfunções

Watu wanahitaji elimu na ajira kuwaepusha na janga la madawa ya kulevya.

All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during...

The best aunts aren’t substitute parents, they’re co-conspirators.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we’d grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I was everything to her. Everything she needed.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and...

When my children complain that I’m forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as ‘£10 poms.’ Back then, the Australian government was...

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one’s earthly parents.

My parents are my role models. All they’ve done for me, they’re just major people in my life. They’ve stood by me and got me where I am today.

When my late father died — now I’m in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly taught me that so many things that I thought were important, externals, etc.,...

I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

My parents live right down the street from the house I grew up in.

A lot of teenagers have parents that are maybe a little too real with them.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I’d go and work my way through the children’s area.

In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm. In the postindustrial age, children are emotional assets but economic liabilities, costing both...

Cut the parents in half.

Have times really changed? Don’t we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don’t we today, as always, need God’s divine protecting care? Don’t we today, as always, continue to...

Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistful. Like most parents he enjoyed the game of waiting till the victim was clearly wrong, then virtuously pouncing.

I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

If you want to write, write it. That’s the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don’t send it to me. Don’t...

The best words of wisdom that a parent can say to their child is “I Am proud of you”.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis … [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother’s Day card. There was a horrible,...

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work – thanks, I suppose, to their parents’ lingering vinyl collections.

There’s no better cure for the fear of taking after one’s father, than not to know who he is.

I couldn’t keep myself from wondering how on earth I got to have such demented parents”.

Who are these people sharing the street with me? What is going on in their worlds, inside their heads? Are they in love? If so, is it the kind that Mum and Dad have? Based...

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I’m not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They’re the exemplars...

Tatlo ang magulang ng henerasyon natin. Ang tatay, ang nanay, at ang mga patalastas o media. Kaya kung mahina yung dalawang nauna, naagawan sila ng ikatlo sa pagpapalaki sa bata.

When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them...

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began...

Isn’t a kid alive who doesn’t dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

I’m thankful I don’t have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They’ve always been there for me.

I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that’s: ‘Don’t take other people’s advice on parenting.’

The memories seem to come in layers. For example, the first memory might be of incest; then they remember robes and candles; next they realize that their father or mother or both were present when...