Parents Quotes
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My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.
John Rhys-Davies
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When you have controversial parents, people have expectations about you. If every day at work I thought to myself, 'How does this relate to them?' I'd be paralyzed.
John Podhoretz
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If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.
Steve Burns
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I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
Amy Chua
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Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.
Deb Caletti
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When parents or gamers ask me, 'What's the best game to play?' I say that playing face-to-face is more beneficial than playing online.
Jane McGonigal
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
Billy Connolly
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I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love.
Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
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The thing that was most constant when I was growing up was just complete support and adoration from my parents.
Jack Garratt
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Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is not one of active instruction, of teaching children skills,... rather, it is support and encouragement parents give children and the intellectual climate that they create in the home which seem to be the critical factors.
David Elkind
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I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.
Lily Rabe
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People often ask me if my parents helped me. My mother did lend me $10 to register the domain name.
Leandra Medine
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Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.
Emily Oster
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No matter how old we are, there is nothing better then getting the approval from our parents and the sense that they are proud of our accomplishments in life.
Yolanda Hadid
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My parents didn't get to have a dream. Their dream was to live in a country where their kids would have choice.
Kelly Marie Tran
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It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
Phyllis Schlafly
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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
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My relationship with my parents is among the greatest gifts of my life.
Christopher Castellani
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My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only child, they wanted me to become a pharmacist. But my own preference would have been to study philosophy and mathematics.
John Harsanyi
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It's sort of scary to work with your parents when you're in the same business. But there was something so very safe about that. Acting with her was just like working with a wonderful actress who just happens to be my best friend and also my mother.
Lily Rabe
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My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.
Gemma Chan
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I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or book I wanted, so I have built up a big collection over the years.
Mark Bridges
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I have never tried to bear a judgment against my own father because I consider that, in our European culture, one does not judge his parents. Now, I have expressed my disagreements with my father on certain points, disagreements related to the way one should express things, something that has also to do with a difference of generations.
Marine Le Pen
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Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
Jake Gyllenhaal