Lidia Bastianich Quotes

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.

I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.

I enjoy making the decisions.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.

For me, growth and empowerment are about giving a woman a choice.

I want to empower.

I believe in empowering people rather than advising them and forcing them in a direction which I feel is right.

There's no better way to be than depending on yourself.

I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.