Parents Quotes
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My journey started with the understanding that poor parents share the universal desire for education for their children. No family in our experience has ever turned down educational support for their daughter.
Ann Cotton -
I kind of - I like my life; I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had such high expectations for me - I would say it's the greatest gift that anyone has ever given me. I complained a lot when I was little, but that's how I feel now. And that's why I tried to do the same with my two daughters.
Amy Chua
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I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I had some ugly clothes growing up, and I never had any privileges. In some ways, I think the person that I am now, I think it's good that I had that kind of tough upbringing.
Amy Chua -
While my parents both worked full-time, we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research skills to consult. And, along with my dad, she even ran a soul food restaurant for my great-aunt.
Stacey Abrams -
I was a very lucky child because at the age of 16, 17 years old, my parents would buy me clothes from Yves Saint Laurent, which was an incredible luxury at the time, but I was attracted to that whole world. I had a pretty nice little wardrobe by the age of 17.
Francois Nars -
Look, it also attempts to poison our children, divide them from their parents and the teaching of the church and basically turn them into pawns for that movement so that they can sexualize them at the earliest possible age. It really is insidious and I agree with you, it is a super sin.
E.W. Jackson -
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 -
The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.
John Milton
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The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.
Peter Thiel -
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
Penn Jillette -
I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.
Jami Attenberg -
My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.
Alessia Cara -
I had the best example set by my parents for what a couple can - and, in my opinion, should - be.
Brett Young -
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'
Maz Jobrani
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Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.
Alison Gopnik -
I don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard -
My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.
Grace Slick Starship -
Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.
Alex Shakar -
I want to make music and songs about things that real musicians and artist aren't able to make songs about - you wouldn't hear Justin Bieber making a song about homework, or, like, you wouldn't see someone make a song with their parents on the track.
Jake Paul -
When you feel your child truly loves you back, it makes you wish you had kissed your parents more.
Carol Ann Susi
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As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it tends to be a relationship that fascinates people, the flawed relationships between parents and kids.
John Lithgow -
You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.
Adam Jacobs -
I'm very conventional compared to my parents.
Bryce Dallas Howard -
It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes with missions which they neither desire nor understand, would kindly, but in all seriousness, teach our European humanity that where parents are not healthy it is a deed pleasing to God to take pity on a poor little healthy orphan child and give him father and mother, than themselves to give birth to a sick child who will only bring unhappiness and suffering on himself and the rest of the world.
Adolf Hitler