Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

Jewel Kilcher

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• I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Parents
  • About
  • Parenting

• When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Drive

• One of my brothers, Eric, who is one year older than me, was actually the first one to start boxing, and being the youngest sibling, I wanted to do what he did, so I pushed my parents to let me join.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Parents
  • Year
  • Boxing

• I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.

  

  Zendaya
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Young

• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Parents

• I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
  • Popular

• The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Parents
  • Passion
  • Spirit

• Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Parents
  • Idea
  • Saying

• My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Real
  • Family
  • Money

• I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

  

  Questlove
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Watching

• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Parents

• My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Good
  • Parents

• Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • World
  • Help
  • Parents

• My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Strong

• I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Nature
  • Going
  • Detract

• You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Home
  • Remember

• I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Children
  • Future
  • Parents

• For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Time
  • Long

• I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.

  

  Joe Cocker
  • Job

• I do go against my leadership all the time because I stand firm on the four questions that I ask about all legislation. The first, is it constitutional according to the original intent? The second, does it fit the Judeo-Christian Biblical principles that our nation is founded upon? Third, do we need it? Fourth, can we afford it?

  

  Paul Broun
  • Time
  • Christian
  • Leadership

• This is where each individual must decide for himself. The essential thing is the decision to challenge the modern state, which without this small group of protesters will be checked by neither brake, value, nor reason.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • Small
  • Value
  • Decision

• So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Parents