Parents Quotes
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That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
Maurice Sendak
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I had the best example set by my parents for what a couple can - and, in my opinion, should - be.
Brett Young
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Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.
Quentin L. Cook
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Mo: I wish it were me instead of you.Sydney: Yeah. I'm getting the sodium pentothal. You have to go sit with my parents.
Alison Bechdel
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We don't like what we don't know or understand. Parents don't like the thought of their kids embracing social media because they don't fully understand the benefits and dangers.
Amy Jo Martin
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I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
Jo Brand
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My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching that made me really want to do that. I am my own person, and I think that the only thing with the Hemingway name is that it has gotten me in the door.
Dree Hemingway
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My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.
Matt Damon
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I don't think my parents know what I do.
John Malkovich
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They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.
H. L. Mencken
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I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.
Lupita Nyong'o
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My friends and family are not really fixated on the specifics of 'Star Wars.' My parents don't know anything about 'Star Wars.' They've never watched a 'Star Wars' film.
John Boyega
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I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.
Mariella Frostrup
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Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
Henry Ward Beecher
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'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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We are all somebody's children, and when we're in pain, we regress, instinctively looking to our parents to make everything better.
Lynn Coady
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If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.
Valerie June
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My whole objective is that parents are involved. There are some programs that we've heard about, and I don't think parents know everything that's being taught.
John Bacon
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I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.
Dinaw Mengestu
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My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.
Kelly Marie Tran
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My parents are small business owners, and the Korean community, like a lot of immigrant communities, is very much owner-driven.
Su-chin Pak
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I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.
Franka Potente
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I'm very conventional compared to my parents.
Bryce Dallas Howard
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Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.
Joseph B. Wirthlin