Clary- "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire.

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

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

I don't advocate any child following in their parent's footsteps when their parent's footsteps are as crooked as mine are.

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

It's essentially encouraging parents, teachers, and caretakers to remind children how special they are on a regular basis.

Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.

When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

I'm surprised I wasn't sent to therapy in the childhood to be honest. I think my parents must have gotten a kick out of it.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

I know I still had to take money from my parents, because no one can afford to live in Manhattan, not even the rich people.

Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.

Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off.

I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.

I am very blessed to have this experience of being a parent, but do not negate me from this industry because I am a parent.

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

Work hard in school and listen to your parents. They really do want the very best for you and have been where you're going.

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

It's important for the children's point of view. That they have parents who are equally unreasonable, but in different ways.

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