Parents Quotes
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I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.
Patricia Richardson
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With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.
James Patterson
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
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Above all, I believe every child, no matter their ZIP code or their parents' jobs, deserves access to a quality education.
Betsy DeVos
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Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop.
Jim Knight
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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
Natasha Trethewey
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
Victoria Osteen
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When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.
Dan Byrd
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My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.
Franz Boas
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
Sally Hawkins
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You want your parents to say, "Hey, I'm proud of you." When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say, "Hell, I don't need their approval. If I get my music right, I'll have everyone else's approval." I didn't understand it then, but I now know that's what happened to me.
Quincy Jones
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
P. L. Travers
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There's no way you should try to send somebody back who came here as a child with their parents and who's grown up here in the United States. They're Americans.
Joe Barton
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My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.
Arabella Weir
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My parents' example of a loving, caring relationship, I think, has affected my songwriting a ton and allowed me to start writing love songs that people could connect to without sounding like you're being cheesy, because they're coming from a real place, something that I saw coming up. I think they're a huge influence on my songwriting.
Brett Young
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With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have one actor playing five roles - people are willing to believe that. But they won't believe it if there's a black or an Asian kid who has white parents. What does that say about us?
David Henry Hwang
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I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia.
Demian Bichir
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
Aaron Sorkin
