Parents Quotes
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I have a great work ethic because I've watched my parents work super hard.
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When my parents arrived with a few trunks, a few dollars, and one kid -- me -- the bakery opportunity proved to be only half-baked. I'm glad. Otherwise, I might have been a baker and this might have been a cookbook.
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My personal style really started in my teens when I gained purchasing power to actually buy my own damn clothes. For so long, my parents dictated what I wore, which largely was their way of containing me within the gender binary.
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Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
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It's very hard to describe to people sometimes the way I grew up, because it wasn't like my parents were irresponsible. They weren't necessarily reckless, but they were bringing all types of energy into the house, all kinds of people.
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My parents were Belfast Catholics.
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You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.
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It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.
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People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.
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Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents.
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Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
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My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. They're both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.
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Where was the closure for Michael Brown's parents?
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I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.
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Very often, overweight children have parents who are struggling with weight issues.
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My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning.
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My parents have been unbelievable. Obviously, without them, I wouldn't be where I am.
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Give parents and school superintendents and school boards the power to decide if they need that money for school construction or if they need it for teacher training or if they need it for new computers.
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Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.
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My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.
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One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.
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Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
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Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?
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My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.
