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Don’t simply settle for what your parents had. You can go further than that. You can do more, have more, be more.
The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.
There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.
You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act like it.
It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.
When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.
Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.
I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.
In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.
If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.
Being a parent you want to be strong for your kids and ninety percent of being a parent is not telling the truth.
I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.
If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.
I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.
If you haven't saved, your child may have to work. But do what you can to NEVER take out student or parent loans.
I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.
I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.
Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.
Jill, we became parents so we could tell our kids what to do. Otherwise we're just the tallest people living here.
You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.
For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.
I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.
With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum.
I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. I believed everything and everyone. Then, I met my parents!
Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a lawyer.
I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.
My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.
As a parent, I know I speak for millions when I say that every child deserves to grow up in a stable, loving home.
But as far as the fame goes, my parents make sure they keep me grounded, for sure. They make me wash dishes still.
My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.
I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.
I am a person who grew up with two wonderful parents and a wonderful family and a person who has done well in life.
I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.
My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.
Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.
I hate to be a broken record - my parents have a lot to do with that too, because that's how they live their lives.
One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them.
When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success.
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.
For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel.
The best that a parent can be... A demonstrator... A consistent, constant demonstrator of being in your own Vortex.