Parents Quotes
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My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations.
Laurie Graham
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I understand the importance of mentorship for young people, even outside their parents. That's more important now than ever. You gotta have that support system everywhere you can.
Craig Robinson
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Especially for Haitian immigrant parents, being a musician is not a job.
Kaytranada
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I've got my wife. I've got my four kids. I've got parents, grandparents still, and three really good friends. It's all you need. I'd rather have three really good friends than 20 good friends.
David Beckham
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I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.
Lorde
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I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.
Dick Van Dyke
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My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.
Win Butler
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I started doing karate at four, my parents were karatekas. I stopped when I was 17 and went to Julliard and had a lot of stage combat there.
Lynn Collins
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Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.
Emilio Estevez
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I'm actually not making fun of my real parents. I've taken stereotypical traits of my real parents, my aunts, my uncles and parents of every race and put them into these two characters, who are just over-the-top ridiculous and super-alpha parents about everything.
Lilly Singh
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My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.
Jaron Lanier
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My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.
Jimmy Fallon
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My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother.
Akhil Sharma
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I remember the first time I ever showed my parents a song that I had written. The content may have been a little darker than they were used to, or really introspective in a way that may have been uncomfortable. I thought they'd retaliate with some kind of judgment or concern about whether I was feeling all right, but they were proud of it.
Tyler Joseph
Twenty One Pilots
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I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded.
Leila Janah
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Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.
Marlo Thomas
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Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.
Oscar Wilde
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Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.
Charles Bass
