Bill Drayton Quotes
We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.
Bill Drayton
Quotes to Explore
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
Zoe Kravitz
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My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
Nancy Pelosi
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
Kamala Harris
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
Yoko Ono
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After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
Iris Johansen
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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
Mandy Moore
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
Abbie Cornish
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My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.
Rachel Kushner
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
Dallas Willard
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There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.
Walter Dean Myers
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I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.
James Murdoch
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Babe Ruth
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I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful for - was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn't tons of feminist literature floating around.
Mary Beth Patterson
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If we were all kind, if we were all loving and respectful to one another, this world would be so different. So it starts with you, and you can do it. Don't let anything hold you back!
Ally Brooke
Fifth Harmony
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Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.
Marianne Williamson
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We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.
Bill Drayton
