The biggest insult to any parent is a child that lives up to society standards and not his or her full potential.
The best words of wisdom that a parent can say to their child is "I Am proud of you".
I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.
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.
Treat your parents with loving care for you will only know their values when you see their empty chair.
The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.
I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.
Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.
The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given.
I can see why there's a misconception that it's easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn't work out at all. In fact, it's the reverse.
I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.
The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.
It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control.
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
