Parents Quotes
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Like other parents, I want my children to be comfortable in their adult lives.
Charles C. Mann
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I focused on my career. I grew up super Christian, both my parents are ministers, so I did a purity ceremony when I was a teenager.
Jessica Williams
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Even when I speak English to my parents, I'll say an English word differently to my Chinese parents and friends than I do to my English-speaking friends - you know, I'll pronounce 'McDonald's' differently, because it feels right, and that's what I'm used to.
Jenny Zhang
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For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved.
J. J. C. Smart
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Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.
Luis Fortuno
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I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.
Cory Booker
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My parents thought I was crazy. When I graduated, you didn't hear of basketball players going to Japan. Everyone went to Europe somewhere.
Anne Donovan
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Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I got a lot of knowledge about everything from classical music to jazz to musicals.
Jillian Hervey
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It was a blast growing up in a house where you have motivating parents, and my mom would always challenge me no matter what it was.
Alex Bregman
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My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.
Corin Tucker
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One of my earliest memories was when I was three, going to this full-length mirror in my parents' bathroom and saying into the mirror, 'You are going to be an actress.'
Katherine Waterston
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We soothe newborns, but parents soon start teaching their children to tolerate higher levels of arousal, a job that is often assigned to fathers. (I once heard the psychologist John Gottman say, “Mothers stroke, and fathers poke.”) Learning how to manage arousal is a key life skill, and parents must do it for babies before babies can do it for themselves. If that gnawing sensation in his belly makes a baby cry, the breast or bottle arrives. If he’s scared, someone holds and rocks him until he calms down. If his bowels erupt, someone comes to make him clean and dry. Associating intense sensations with safety, comfort, and mastery is the foundation of self-regulation, self-soothing, and self-nurture, a theme to which I return throughout this book.
Bessel van der Kolk
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My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like "I don't care what MTV says you are.".
Pete Wentz
Fall Out Boy
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I feel pressure because I feel like I have a lot of parents in my life; I have a lot of people who are scared that I'm going to do something wrong.
Shawn Mendes
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No government is ever going to get it perfect. The job of policymakers is to continue seeking perfection and making it better and constantly reassessing to ensure that the students and the parents are getting the most out of the education system.
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
John le Carre
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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've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Throughout all the rejections at auditions, and especially when I finally did get something, both my parents have been so supportive and always told me it is all about passion and, if I was doing it because I love it, there's no wrong choice.
Lily Collins