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.

From parents, we get hugs. We’ve had a lot of comments that homework time has been cut in half.

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you’re growing up.

You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don’t stay children forever. No one magically...

When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man’s work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch...

In the survey the School Board asks multiple questions, clumsily disguised as serious attempts to gain parents’ views for future decisions. The survey contains nothing more than a threat of dire outcomes designed to scare...

Nós, pais erramos muito e frequentemente porque os manuais são genéricos e nosso produto específico.

When you’re in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

When I left my parents’ home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told...

We have reached the point of saturation a vicious revolving door of never-ending seasons. Children can’t even take a couple of months’ hiatus from a sport for fear of falling behind their peers and being...

The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the...

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.

Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

My parents’ work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?Part of the reason was to keep the family going – to keep me going. I realized that, although...

I’m lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I’m also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my...

I am a wild orchid of comedy, so I can only do well under specific conditions… There are people who I think can do any room, and do stadiums and thousand-seat theaters, and then there...

Just in general as a person, not necessarily as a songwriter, being in cities wasn’t the right fit. I couldn’t escape and be in the woods in 10 minutes if I needed to. I like...

It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn’t be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.

All that shameless groveling. no wonder ‘merapa wanted him to go. This was his punishment, a conclusion clearer than anything he’d witnessed since leaving Mira III. Would his father do that? of course he would....

No one can escape slavery; we are all slaves in some regards. We are slaves to our parent’s expectations. We are slaves to the pressures of our peers. We are slaves to our own ideologies...

And as Rhonda told the story, she thought: this is how the past gets passed down. This is how memories are made. Half-invented, embellished, given a touch of whimsy. Daniel would be a saint now...

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

Parents just want to be able to put controls in place with as little hassle as possible. They don’t want to learn how to use something, or have multiple levels of control. They want a...

Why would any parent want their kid on their health-care plan when they are 26? Parents want their kids to grow up and take care of themselves. A 26-year-old is an adult.

Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she’ll die happy. If she lives the way you want her to live, she’ll die miserable. So leave her alone, okay?

Don’t deny your parents a chance at happiness and also an opportunity to see you achieve greatness.

My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our...

I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.

I’m a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord – and...

My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.

I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn’t for me.

I wouldn’t listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said – told me – but I did what they did.

One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn’t okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.

I write to get ideas out of my head

Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don’t care if they’re sending you to face bloodthirsty...

Y’all know how much I love you? “Infinity and back again,” I say the way I’ve said it a million times. And then, daddy says to me, “go on and add a little bit more...

My mother is the antithesis of a typical Jewish mother, she is very soft-spoken and takes more naps that a cat. As a result, I’ve always longed for someone to really annoy the shit out...

He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn’t even started to be grown-ups together. There was this piece of heaven, this little girl he’d carried around...

And one day when you wake up, you happen to realise that your battle isn’t with the man you had got into a brawl with the other day, it isn’t with a friend turned foe,...

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Mom and Dad exchange a nervous glance and have a telepathic conversation about it. I hear every word. Do we let her out? It’s past curfew. True, but look at that—at least she asked! I...