You can’t help who your parents are or aren’t. My parents aren’t—they don’t exist and have never existed.

My whole objective is that parents are involved. There are some programs that we’ve heard about, and I don’t think parents know everything that’s being taught.

Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How — how?—can I make...

Many a man has known that startling instant in which Dan Cupid, that busy young rascal, took things in hand, and told him that his baby girl was not a baby girl now, and was...

They’ve seen more wins than my parents. They’ve always been there. They come out to a couple of tournaments a year, and we talk every now and then. They’re good people.

Coming back last time to the house she grew up in, Isabel had been reminded of the darkness that had descended with her brothers’ deaths, how loss had leaked all over her mother’s life like...

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can’t forget your parents and all they’ve done to help you to get...

My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.

When you ask most American parents why they want to have kids, it’s to bring more joy into their lives. So, when you don’t feel that all-encompassing joy, it must be that something is wrong...

Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most feared: an incorrigible masturbator, a winsome homosexual, a recklessly impregnatory libertine. On our behalf they dreaded the closeness...

My earliest memories are of watching ‘Star Trek’ and ‘MASH’ while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.

Kinder lieben ihre Eltern zuerst. Nach einer Weile beurteilen sie sie. Selten, wenn je, verzeihen sie ihnen.

I’m Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I’m like… in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.

I thought, Dad.Could I go to Vietnam for you?Dad, I could do it. I could do it for you. I could go to the places you fought. I could find the bits and pieces of...

You can’t blame her,’ said Amit. ‘After a life so full of tragedy anyone would become hard.”What tragedy?’ asked Mrs. Chatterji.’Well, when she was four,’ said Amit, ‘her mother slapped her–it was quite traumatic–and then...

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us.

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.

My parents think I’m better under pressure.

What I think is really important is that parents, students and staff should know, regardless of the work to be done, school will start on Sept. 1 and teachers will be ready,

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You’re embarrassed by your parents, and you’re trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

My parents were supportive. I didn’t have good grades, but they could tell I wasn’t lazy.

The problem with parents is that they’re adults.

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

I’m more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We’re still married as parents.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but...

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve...

When the Indians saw us whipping our children, they thought at first that we must hate our children, but then they thought, no, no one can hate his child. They decided it must be a...

You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or failed the way you see a table square or a Montclair lip-read. Kids today… you...

Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.

I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.

I’m glad you were both here,” I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.

Boys and girls, have confidence in the direction and counsel and advice of your parents and grandparents who love you more than anybody else in the world does.

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.

You’re not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever.

I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it’s not what it’s cracked...

Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn’t know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

We made satires of everything – news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical...

I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.

Das ist eine der anstrengenderen Seiten von Moritz, die er mit dem Alter entwickelt hat – die Mischung aus Perfidie und Sentimentalität.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

A warm feeling fell over the boy. A mix of security and comfort, as if a blanket were wrapping its soft layers around his heart and nuzzling him snuggly. Gavin loved his mother, and he...

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to...

If we don’t provide that (seamless transition) in a temporary facility or whatever, you may have some parents who are reluctant to put their children in the charter middle school if they have to go...

My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.