Parents Quotes
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I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents.
Jarvis Cocker Pulp -
I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.
Mordecai Brown
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I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.
Caroline B. Cooney -
There's no constitutional right for your parents to pay for college.
Jane Velez-Mitchell -
I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.
Summer Sanders -
Golf has always been a part of my life. My parents have footage of me in a walker swinging a plastic club. If I didn't play golf, I would have been a baseball player. I could sit and watch baseball all day.
Peter Uihlein -
I was born on August 10, 1913, in Lorenzkirch, a small village in Saxony, as the fourth child of Theodor and Elisabeth Paul, nee Ruppel. All in all, we were six children. Both parents were descendants from Lutheran ministers in several generations.
Wolfgang Paul -
I remember my parents quarrelling. They would talk as if they were against each other's ideas about Trotsky, but it was just a couple arguing.
Maria de Medeiros
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Parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.
Barbara Holland -
More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.
Lee Haney -
I was, like, 17 years old, making more money than my parents.
Jake Paul -
Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.
Twyla Tharp -
I think, for the benefit of our parents, the perfect night out would be when Cate and I touch the wall and we tie. This is what they dream - that we'll both win. Because then they don't have to pick a favourite child.
Bronte Campbell -
One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their parents are. They know their parents have these old views.
Katherine Boo
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Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.
Ashley Olsen -
I still speak to my parents only in German, and I have endless family over there.
Peter Hermann -
My parents never said to me, 'Why don't you go and get a real profession?' And that really helped.
Anat Cohen -
There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents and children, Elvis, Apollo, Walt Whitman, rhythms of its politics. Manthology is a remarkably honest and enormously heartening collection.
Nancy Eimers -
My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today.
Amy Jackson -
Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.
Mel Carnahan
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Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
John Hurt -
I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents to make me clean my room and stuff
Zach Braff -
My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.
Matthew Gray Gubler -
I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
Saint Augustine