Parents Quotes
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I have a very close relationship with my parents.
 Caroline Wozniacki
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Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.
 Blaise Pascal
					 
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I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
 Billy Eichner
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My parents made us do everything, try everything.
 Alison Krauss
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What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.
 Agnes Meyer Driscoll
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Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
 Alison Gopnik
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When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They were anxious of a profession they knew nothing about.
 David Morrissey
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My parents and my brother root for me.
 Owen King
					 
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The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
 Confucius
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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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I had a stage when I was 12 years old. I had a puppet show career. I wrote horror stories in camp, and all the parents called and complained.
 John Waters
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If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
 Clarence Day
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One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.
 Caroline Wozniacki
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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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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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I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
 Andrew Mayer Cohen
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I feel pressure because I feel like I have a lot of parents in my life; I have a lot of people who are scared that I'm going to do something wrong.
 Shawn Mendes
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They never asked any reasons for their parents’ fights, thinking all adults unreasonable, violent beings, the toys of their own monstrous tempers and egotisms
 Christina Stead
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I would certainly say that my life, and perhaps human life in general, follows an intricate pattern of defining, declaring, struggling for, fighting for what we think of and treasure as the self. The inviolate self. This begins with our families: your parents are part of your cultural landscape, and they are also shaped by larger forces than them.
 Margo Jefferson
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Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.
 Bonnie Raitt
					 
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A lot of the songs in 'See Jane Sing!' are pulled straight from the kitchen table and my parents harmonizing together.
 Jane Lynch
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Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.
 Lily Rabe
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Every individual face, a grandmother or grandchild or parents and their two kids, they're all there waving at you and they've all come to see you, it's as simple as that. They're not there simply by chance and that's very, very humbling.
 Ellen MacArthur
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My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.
 Donald Hall