Parent Quotes

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

Vivienne Westwood
With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

Andrew Solomon

I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.

Roger Federer
- Years
- Born
- Orphanage
Most fast-food workers can't easily join a union, because they don't work directly for their parent company, such as McDonald's or Subway. Instead, they work for individual franchise owners, ensuring that each individual fast-food outlet would have to organize and win union recognition separately. So there's not one central employer to bargain with, as in a traditional union campaign.

David Rolf
The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Paul Johnson
- Parent
- One
- Subversive
I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.

Tom Vilsack
"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it - and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit.

Dan Gillmor
- Teacher
- Brother
- Attitude
My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

Helen McCrory
- Parent
- Order
- Neurotic