Parents Quotes
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My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.
Anna Chancellor -
Spouses should spend at least one full hour each day talking together about subjects that have nothing to do with their work or business. Children need at least ten minutes of face-to-face contact with their parents each day.
Brian Tracy
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Music is so much a part of me: my parents told me that when I was an infant, I wouldn't eat unless the radio was playing music.
Neil Sedaka -
My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
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.
Stephen Pagliuca -
I want to be successful in my return as a singer so I can buy a big building for my parents who have struggled a lot because of me.
Park Bom 2NE1 -
Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that your parents knew how much money they had. Nobody was being fooled.
Cameron Esposito -
We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.
Joe Nichols
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Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.
Meghan Markle -
Our parents helped us, or we wouldn't be here. Lacy Van Zant and my mother used to sign for amps or loan us money to get to the gig or take us in their car. It's just like little sports guys - Little League and football players - whose parents help them. That's why they get good.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd -
I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.
Patti Smith -
You young maidens, too long constrained by a fanciful Virtue's absurd and dangerous bonds and by those of a disgusting religion, imitate the fiery Eugénie; be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbecile parents.
Marquis de Sade -
We've had a lot of parents ask questions about the program.
Angela Davis -
As a younger person I think I thought of myself as a Tony [from The Best Man], struggling with the legacy of my famous parents.
Chris Hart
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I can't say that I've ever tried to hurt someone or humiliate them intentionally. My parents raised me to always be the bigger person or to treat others the way you want to be treated.
Nicole Gale Anderson -
My parents were the ones who gave me the independence, who gave me the spark to do anything that you set your mind to, as all parents should do for their kids.
Marlee Matlin -
I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.
Derek Jeter -
I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.
Kim Kardashian -
My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.
Dick Vitale -
If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.
Sigmund Freud
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It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.
Willa Fitzgerald -
"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
Nancy Chodorow -
I'm not doing this because I want to be famous and not because I want any power. In this country, the power is always with the people; the people we govern on borrowed time. I want to serve. My parents taught me to give back to the community.
Lynn Swann -
My mother lives with me in Milan, while my father travels to and from Savona. My parents take care of my money, too.
Stephan El Shaarawy