Parents Quotes
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You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.
Jason Mraz
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My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.
George Thorogood
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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
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I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
Penn Jillette
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My first husband, John Barry, was a composer. I couldn't believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose me and not any of the other girls. I was so flattered, so excited, so in love with him. Of course, my parents were horrified, as he'd been married once and had a daughter with the au pair girl.
Jane Birkin
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Like other parents, I want my children to be comfortable in their adult lives.
Charles C. Mann
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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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As policy makers, Congress has the power to promote public policies that economically empower single parents and drastically reduce childhood poverty.
Marc Veasey
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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
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Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.
Paul Fleischman
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For the parents, it is a way to be young physically and emotionally for awhile and not have to deal with the troubles of the world.
Cathy Rigby
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We've had a lot of parents ask questions about the program.
Angela Davis
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When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, and he's with Jack and a lot of my brothers and sisters and my parents.' So it made it very easy to get through the day thinking he was OK.
Ethel Kennedy
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I really lucked out in terms of how my parents encouraged me to develop my own personality so I didn't just feel incredibly insecure and like I didn't fit in.
Winona Ryder
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When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
Bob Hope
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The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with my parents and figuring out how to assemble, and staring at the night sky, just for hours, with both of my parents.
Chelsea Clinton
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When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent.
Drew Barrymore
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When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!
Derek Jeter
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You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.
Adam Jacobs
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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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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 think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things then them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right.
Tiger Woods
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I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.
Amity Gaige