Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Leifer

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

Carol Moseley Braun

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Carol Vorderman

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

Carol Vorderman

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

Carlos Mencia

If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!

Carlos Fuentes

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

Carlos Fuentes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Carlos Castaneda

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

Carl Andre

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

Carlos Castaneda

The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

Agnes Martin

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

Charlotte Bronte

I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder-how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest.

Charlotte Bronte

My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.

Charles Stanley

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

Charles Stanley

Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.

Charles Stanley

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

Richard G. Scott

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

Kourtney Kardashian

I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.

Brad Meltzer

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

Juvenal

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Carl Jung

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

Betty Smith

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

Debra Winger

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

Brene Brown

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Aristotle

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

Aristotle

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.