Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Birbiglia

I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'

Mike Birbiglia

I didn't realize how good I was with computers until I met my parents.

Nancy Kerrigan

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

Kate Bush

The only person with you all your life is you. Your parents die. Things inside you die — illusions, gushes of personality. Only you can sort yourself out. Yourself may not be all you need, but it’s all you’ve got.

It's our policy to keep the parents in the loop.

Aaron Peirsol

It sounds trite because they've been told that by their parents and their coaches,

Connecticut right now is not in the mainstream. We have 44 states that have passed some type of parental notification law. Connecticut's legislature has never even had a public hearing.

Everybody's on the same page. That's rare. So the parents and youth could talk together at home.

Tim Johnson

They are spending probably 100 times what they used to spend on parent engagement. We're just not getting any value out of that. How can you have a full-time, union person in the school as a parent coordinator and still not have a functioning P.T.A.?

Jeff Baker

It was nice, actually a first for me. I had one of my teachers come to watch. My parents were there. I worked on picking up my running speed and just really let it go.

It's been a long road, but the parents' wishes are being met. That's very important.

There's a ton of parent involvement at that level. (Parents) need to be part of the process.

I'm their No. 1 fan. We (parents) support them wholeheartedly. They're very talented. They play a lot of instruments.

If parents don't plant the crop, they won't reap the harvest,

If parents can think of it in terms of a process, not a cutoff, it can help.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm just doing what I've been taught by my parents to do, ... This is the right thing to do, and I'm trying to urge other people to do it.

You have to treat people like you want to be treated. I was taught that by my parents.

A lot of people who aren't parishioners or parents come out every year. It's a fun?filled day.

They made sure things were running smoothly. They took the pressure off of parent volunteers.

Laura Dern

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents

Leslie Mann

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.

Jon Foreman

It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me.

Henry Rollins

If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

Henry Rollins

I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves,

Henry B. Eyring

You may have confidence in the Lord’s service. The Savior will help you do what He has called you to do, be it for a time as a worker in the Church or forever as a parent. You may pray for help enough to do the work and know that it will come.

Hector Elizondo

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

Hector Elizondo

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

Henry David Thoreau

There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.

Mallory Ortberg

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

Mandy Moore

I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.

A lot of times, it's the adults or the parents that have the most fun.

You've got the new parents like myself who don't know what to expect, ... For me, as a first-time parent, I think it's good.

This has ripped the family. The parents they're devastated.