Parents Quotes
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Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal.
John McEnroe
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I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city of your own.
Andrew O'Hagan
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From kindergarten, I knew that politics is something that you talk about only at home, because if you weren't quiet, your parents might be taken to prison. All Estonian families have these kind of stories.
Kersti Kaljulaid
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My first concert was pretty memorable - Deep Purple at 14. I had a really good childhood, I got along with my parents. I never rebelled. Pretty much all of it was cool. I wouldn't change any of it.
Phil Collen Def Leppard
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My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.
Alexander Ludwig
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Parents are with their children almost constantly and can observe when they are ready to be instructed. From questions or behavior or because of experiences in their own lives, they can sense that it is time to teach. Parents must know when the time for the lesson is now, right now, for their children are ready for it.
Boyd K. Packer
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I think parents generally know what's best for their children. But I suppose it's possible to be overprotective.
Chris Van Allsburg
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When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.
Trisha Yearwood
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What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.
Chanda Kochhar
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When it comes to love, maturity often gets a bad rap - second love is boring; it's practical. It's what our parents feel for each other.
Jenny Zhang
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From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents.
Caroline Pratt
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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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I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.
Bill Gates
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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.
Gautama Buddha
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You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back!
Richard Simmons
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Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.
Twyla Tharp
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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
Ann Patchett
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The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.
Vandana Shiva
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When I was 3 years old, my parents got a dog. I was jealous of the dog, so they got rid of me.
Jack Roy
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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
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
Douglas Coupland
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And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.
John Engler
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I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled.
Dorothy Hamill
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In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
Boyd K. Packer