Parents Quotes
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When I was young, and I wouldn't eat, my parents would say, 'Eat, or else you're going to become a little Biafran.'
Joanne Liu
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If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.
Kevin Richardson
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I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.
Phillip Lim
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Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
Bill Dedman
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I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
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I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
James Dean
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I always figured there would be a kid audience and an adult audience, and there is. That's true for 'Hunger Games' and 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter.' And 'Maximum Ride,' for sure. In particular what happens is a lot of parents share the books with their kids, and the mom has read it, and the kids, and they talk about it.
James Patterson
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My parents, in their 40s, moved to a different country, started a business, bought a house, didn't speak the language, raised two kids - it's kind of amazing.
Jamie Chung
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Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
Jacques Delille
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As parents, we have kids who reflect back to us our addiction to devices, and we have all sorts of worries about whether this is a healthy thing.
Franklin Foer
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Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
Gloria Estefan
Miami Sound Machine
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You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.
Emily Rios
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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Jack Roy
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My parents always told me never be a follower, always be a leader. It's very difficult to do, to step out and be different and not follow the norm. If you want what's best for your team, you gotta be different.
Jalen Brunson
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I think everyone assumes that I talk to my parents a lot about writing, but I didn't - they're my parents. We didn't have constant workshops running in my household.
Jesse Kellerman
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I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but my parents had the Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, the Association, the Fifth Dimension; these groups were un-cool, but I secretly loved them.
Jill Sobule
