I must have been 12 years old. I remember it was raining. We passed by the National Gallery, and that wonderful pink marble, in the rain it gets a very rich rose. I remember looking up and saying to my parents, ‘That’s the kind of job I would like to have some day.

I believe government should be loyal to parents, teachers and children.

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts – in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma – would someday be called Congressman.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

Just as a parent is pleased with the efforts of his little child to please him, though it be only by picking a daisy or walking across a room, so is our Father in heaven pleased with the poor performances of His believing children. He looks at the motive, principle, and intention of their actions, and not merely at their quantity and quality. He regards them as members of His own dear Son.

Parents, determine to make your children obey you, though it may cost you a lot of trouble, and cost them many tears. Let there be no questioning, and reasoning, and disputing, and delaying. When you give them a command, let them clearly see that you expect them to do it.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two’s is the most important thing. Kids get heavy. Quite literally. They’re heavy to lift up when they’re throwing tantrums.

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that — thank heaven — nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

The real lost souls don’t wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don’t give their parents a moment’s worry.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

That thing, ‘You must stay together for the kids’, is out of fashion but is right. It’s not arguing parents that children don’t like, it is having one parent.

I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I’d be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day

When you’re a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, “Okay, I’m basically out of action now for three months

I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

I sometimes have birthday parties for the kids in my neighborhood and then pretend to suggest that I am going to molest them to the parents. It’s a hilarious prank even though I am not a paedophile

My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes

There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the next 15 years.

I got into tennis because of my parents. They would play a little on the weekend and I liked it when I played.

My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

I grew up Mormon. I wasn’t really Mormon, my parents were.

Growing up in downtown New York City in the ’80s, we were ensconced in art and progressive thinking,Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we – kids and grown-ups – all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator. We never felt patronized.

I’ve been trying to write since 1998 after dropping out of Visual Communication from Loyola. My parents have been supportive

But we might be talking about a significant percentage of parents that have questions about vaccines – and we need to answer them. We need to give them the scientifically based, credible answer

If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.

For centuries, we were taught that anger is bad. Our parents, teachers, priests, everyone taught us how to control and suppress our anger. But I ask: why can’t we convert our anger for the larger good of society?

One can’t live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.

My parents aren’t crazy conservative. They’re actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I’m from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.

I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents’ footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in – that whole cycle. That’s not just a small-town thing. That’s a life thing.

My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.

My parents – Augustine Joseph and Elizabeth – discovered my talent for singing when I was a kid. I remember them telling me that I sang a classical piece after listening to it a couple of times when I was two-and-a-half years old.

Both my parents are teachers, and while they were always cool with what I did, they never let me take my education lightly.

Everyone has parents. It’s unavoidable.

At the end of the day, I’d love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That’s what would make me most happy.

The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?

Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.

Sunday school: a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Her parents can buy her anything she wants. Why would she want some dumb thing I drew on the back of an envelope?’ Sam asked. ‘I Suppose,’ Dong Hyun said, ‘because her parents can buy her anything she wants.’

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That’s when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.

That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see ‘Annie’ and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

If you’re unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

I was lucky, I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20.

We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their studies because of the abuses they’re subject to by teachers and their own parents.

I thank God that I’m a product of my parents, that they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I’m grateful that I know where I come from.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home

I believe that listening is one of the most important skills for any teacher, parent, leader, entrepreneur or, well, just about anyone who has a pulse.

My mom was a single parent.

One of the things I’ve always said is that if you’re given the ability to coach kids, then you’re really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

People think, ‘Well, religion is good for mankind. It must be worth teaching it to children.’ Well, you have to look at the texts. You have to say, ‘Do I, as a parent, if I can avoid it, want my child to be taught this?’

When I was up in New York, the first record my parents bought me was the Terror Squad record with ‘Lean Back.’

I have been truly blessed to receive such kind consolations from the Heavenly Father.

My parents divorced, and I didn’t have much of a daddy growing up.

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.

I’m totally normal. I think it’s obnoxious when people demand limos or bodyguards. I eat at McDonald’s or Taco Bell. My parents always taught us to be humble. We’re not spoiled.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

Our Father’s wagons rumble most heavily when they are bringing us the richest freight of the bullion of his grace.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There’s nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you – and they give you a lot – however much your parents irritate you – it doesn’t matter because you love them.

Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.

God bless the popcorn film. Especially movies where you can take the kids, because I remember looking forward to seeing these movies with my parents, and if I can give that back, I’m gonna do it.

The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look forward to sharing them with their parents, a ritual if you will, where they get to spend time together and the kids are smiling.

Your parents are supposed to tell you to make decisions that are gonna help you and that’ll have a positive effect on your life and your well-being

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hand

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

It’s a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young but it happened. And I’m happy she’s out of pain, ’cause I love her and she’s my friend.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

I don’t think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own

Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

My parents didn’t care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.

My mother can really boast of me. My pops can really boast of me. Everyone goes on encouraging me.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I often felt lonely and depressed when I was growing up. It had nothing to do with my parents—it’s just my brain chemistry.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.