parents

But the world hinges on good fathers and those who would be the merchants of confidence.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is self-confidence.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others__ur parents, for instance__nd they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live.

Poverty doesn't make parents unfit any more than wealth deems them appropriate.

The world gives us PLENTY of opportunities to strengthen our patience. While this truth can definitely be challenging, this is a good thing. Patience is a key that unlocks the door to a more fulfilling life. It is through a cultivation of patience that we become better parents, powerful teachers, great businessmen, good friends, and a live a happier life.

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

What you can do, has nothing to do with your parents' last name! What you can do has nothing to do with the colour of your skin! What you can do is fully determined by God! It__ simple!

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

By exchanging quality time for 'turn-up' times, what many of today's wayward youngsters have become - men and women of the village have failed them.

Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this.

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.

German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything: I love my wife! I love all my friends! I love rock music! I love the rain! I love comic books! I love peanut butter! The word you use to describe your feelings for your wife should not be the same word you use to describe your feelings for peanut butter. In German, there are a dozen different words that describe varying degrees of liking something a lot. Germans almost never use the word love, unless they mean a deep romantic love. I have never told my parents I love them, because it would sound melodramatic, inappropriate, and almost incestuous. In German, you tell your mother that you hold her very dear, not that you are in love with her.

I hate smug people.__os laughed. __hat you do. And so you__e using his phone. He__l explode, you know.___h, it__l be bad. __ause I made all the phone calls on my list.__here was a pause. __o. You didn__.___ did.___ifty-one phone calls on the off-limits phone?_ __up.___id you fall down the stairs or something? What is wrong with you?!

When I was in junior high school, I used to think that Disney's 1990's paranormal television program 'So Weird' was every kid's ideal life - not going to school, living on a tour bus, having rockstar parents, traveling all over North America and never staying in one place for more than a week or so. Of course, eventually the realization hits you that the kids out there who really do live like this, pulling up stakes every week and never staying with their friends or having a permanent residence, aren't really happy.

She fell down fifty-five floors. It took 10.6 seconds for her to hit the ground. It took my father forty-eight hours to come back home from his business trip in Sweden.

One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.