There is no home as comfortable as your father’s arms and no bed as soft as your mother’s lap.

Parenting goes beyond providing foods, shelter, clothing, and other basic necessities. Nurturing a child to travel in the direction of positive enlightenment, is arguably the greatest thing that you could do for a child.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing… are parents.

I don’t like kissing on camera. It’s bad enough to be caught kissing by your parents. But when you have a whole crew watching you, it’s a little weird.

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that’s what my father...

Love your parents, but don’t have them as your mates.

A mother is the person who takes care of you when you’re sick. The one who holds you when you’re afraid. The one who follows the bus to school on the first day to make...

The death of a parent, he wrote, ‘despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we...

Children, a lot of times, can’t make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you’re young, you can’t get on your Big Wheel and...

I had no work after ‘Gangster’ for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me...

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Through school, I saw plenty of theatre my parents weren’t necessarily up on. They would prefer a football game to watching ‘The Nutcracker,’ and that’s fine. I enjoy both.

The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in.

My parents’ divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane – not because children had lost interest in adorable...

I don’t know how many parents are actually doing it, in the midst of all the other things parents have to do. We haven’t written about it because we don’t want them to feel guilty...

We will provide a right for parents to request to work flexible hours when their child is young.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!

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. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

Les enfants sont des créatures extraordinaires, quand ils ne sont pas simplement chiants.

YOU’RE IN MY MOUTH, I said. GET OUT OF MY MOUTH.

I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms...

My parents couldn’t handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn’t resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.

After I lie there for a while, I realize that Dad isn’t every going to do anything but be there to drive us home from the airport. And cook. And if I want something bigger...

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone’s life. I don’t think parents realize what’s going on.

If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my...

We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.

Dads. It’s time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their...

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...

My parents have always said, ‘You’ll be so unhappy if you’re no more than your career, that it’s important to get out there and do things other than just your career.’

I received my parents’ permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

I’m exceptionally open with my own parents, and they’re exceptionally open with me.

The investigation involves the parents.

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.

A thousand times today I’ve started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, “Can you tell me…? But then I’d look into the front seat, at my mother’s silent shaking, my father’s grim profile,...

Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.

Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren’t spayed or neutered. I’m proud to support PETA’s work to prevent animal homelessness.

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.

What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind – a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia – and...

When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don’t be surprised to see him/her...

I fully believe in ghosts. I have, my entire life. The first house I ever lived in was haunted. There was a grave of a man in the backyard. I was just a baby then,...

They were no better than common thieves. They stole our childhood. But even with that, I was heartbroken that I would not know the Wozniaks anymore, the only people who came close to being parents...

Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘support’ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures … in the eyes of...

What Phillip Morris is doing here is a tremendous disservice to parents and to infants because it’s increasing the risk infants will die.

When I was a kid, my parents never let me use race as an excuse. They’d say, ‘When you walk into a room and it’s all white, those kids have to work to stand out,...

I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that...