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.

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

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

One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is the empowerment to create a life they love, filled with purposeful, enjoyable work, and relationships they hold dear.

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred – Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned...

This is so disrespectful to parents.

Thirteen years and six albums to get here, … I’d like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual. And I stand here tonight and represent nothing but music.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.

When I told my parents, ‘I’m going to be an actor,’ they screamed and wept and freaked out.

Poverty doesn’t make parents unfit any more than wealth deems them appropriate.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to...

That’s right”, she says, wiping tears from her cheeks. “You weren’t with me that time I walked in on them doing the deed. Seriously Freudian horror.””You saw your parents at the best,” Mom murmurs, before...

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else’s.

Sigara zilizidi kuvutwa, ndani ya nyumba, na magaidi wale wawili, wakati Murphy akisinzia kudanganyia kama kweli nguvu zilishamwisha. Alimfikiria tena mpenzi wake Sophia, safari hii sana. Alimkumbuka Debbie; hakujua alikuwa wapi na hakujua mama yake...

You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they’re just on another planet.

I want to visit my parents graves and see the cherry tree blossom in Japan again.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

Going home means going back in time. It’s not a trip you care to take alone, and anyway, isn’t that the main reason to take a mate? So you have an ally in the civil...

When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age.

My two parents represent the single greatest influence on my life. And if my dad had been there for me, it would be the double greatest influence on my life.

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers’ education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing...

I was brought up in a way that when you’re at a dinner party, you don’t grab a chip unless it’s been offered to everyone else. It’s the manners of being brought up by English...

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish,...

My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land,...

The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up. That communication style becomes our normal way of dealing with issues, our blueprint for communication. It’s what we know and...

Because they no longer live with their parents, they’ll need to insure their car on their own. They may find that insurance is very expensive. College grads tend to want to go out and buy...

They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

I don’t know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents’ marriage. And it’s interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

That’s the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don’t really care, or at least they don’t care enough to let it affect the outcome.

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.

My parents didn’t know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me.

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even...

but my dad said it was no excuse.”But I love him!” I had never seen my sister cry that much.”No, you don’t.””I hate you!””No, you don’t.” My dad can be very calm sometimes.”He’s my whole...

My parents are great listenersWhich is why I never tell them anything

Some of the things I hated my parents for when I was younger are the same things I love my parents for now that I’m older.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons.

My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.

I want parents out there to know that it’s totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were...

Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.

I think it’s up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

New Rule: Don’t name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means...