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If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.
When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.
My parents were big supporters of me going to college. It was the right thing for me to do. But it was the toughest decision I had to make.
My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.
I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.
My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.
When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.
After such an emotional day with her own parents, the thought nearly brought Luce to her knees with sadness. Daniel was alone in the world.
I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.
I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.
Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.
Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't have tattoos, I guess.
I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace.
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.
Anybody can be a dad. I just want to be a good parent. I want to be a dad that my kids can talk to. I want to have a relationship with them.
Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.
Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.
I've always referred to my father as 'my coach' because we were always able to separate our relationship into the roles of coach and parent.
My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.
I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.
If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.
My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere.
Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.
Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?
I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.
The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.
If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.
It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.
Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.
Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a matter of managing your money properly.
Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.
My dad was abusive. And so he would say, 'You're my favorite.' Being a favorite of an abusive parent is not really a good thing, necessarily.
I went to a commune with my parents when I was a kid and everyone else got given cool spirit animals like tigers and panthers. I got a mouse.
Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.
My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.
In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never get both out of one parent.
I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right.
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents.
I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.