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

If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.

Jodi Picoult

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

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.

Julia Cameron

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

Mark Twain

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Davis Love

Jack's got a loss and a tie. We'd like to get him a win.

Joe Johnson

I thought we were on the verge, but a loss is a loss.

Paula Carico

What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.

Becca McArdle

We've experienced a loss and so we now know what that's like.

Derrick Landrus

To come back after the tough loss in the first game, we needed that.

Joan Anderson

Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.

Joan Bonvicini

This was not our day; it was actually a very embarrassing loss for us.

Rob Thomas

What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone.

John Burness

Joe wanted to reach out to students who felt they'd like support and provide answers for anything they felt they needed to know.

Evan Bayh

I think I should hear what the man has to say before making up my mind, ... Whoever is chosen for this spot could be on our nation's highest court for 30 years perhaps, and deal with some of the most fundamental liberties that we have in this country. So I think it's important we take our time, ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and then reach a considered judgment.

Paul Heath

It answers who did it and possibly why they did it, and to that extent, there is closure.

Robert Yates

It answers the question; we feel the engine program is pretty solid, ... There is a long list of things that make up a good race team, and when you can eliminate one of those variables, it's nice.

John Green

I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.

David Trimble

The people that we really need the answers from are the Republican movement and what they've got to do is they have got to tell us what they are going to do.

Peter Young

We support the general concept of a World Cup but like everything else with Twenty20, there are more questions than answers and we'd like a bit more time to look at everything.

Tom Clark

To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm.

Alex Jones

The answer to 1984 is 1776.