Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Satir

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Khalil Gibran

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

Khalil Gibran

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Jodi Picoult

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Ewan McGregor

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

Joan Rivers

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

John Lennon

If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright...

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.

Carl Jung

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

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Scott Podsednik

I was just trying to get on base.

Robert Collier

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

William Shakespeare

All, with one consent, praise newborn gawds (sic), though they are made and molded of things past

Li Keqiang

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

Lady Gaga

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

Josh Hartnett

There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.

Charles Baudelaire

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

Dennis Lehane

What molds us is what maims us.

David Hancock

I've been surprised just with the strength of the Hitachi name. I thought I would have to mold it.

Bashar al-Assad

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.