Parents Quotes
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My marriage is my marriage, and it means I'm able to share in the same aspirations of commitment and love and support and dedication and connectedness, and that my parents are able to dance at our wedding and that our family and friends are able to support and celebrate and hold us accountable for the commitment we've made to one another. That takes nothing away from anyone else.
Evan Wolfson
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Of everyone on this ship, even the frozen bodies of my parents, Elder's the only one who handed me truth and waited for me to accept it.
Beth Revis
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This is advertising that is designed not to look or feel like advertising at all. The one thing we felt we got parents to agree with was that if their children ask them questions about enlisting, they had an obligation to, one, engage, and then two, be informed.
Edward Boches
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My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.
Heather Mills
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It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.
Scott McClellan
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In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.
Beryl Markham
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From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
Steven Spielberg
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
Judith Viorst
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When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.
Tom Hanks
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I want to see little children adorning every home, as flowers adorn every meadow and every way-side. I want to see them welcomed to the homes they enter, to see their parents grow less and less selfish and more and more loving, because they have come. I want to see God's precious gifts accepted, not frowned upon and refused.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.
Morgan Freeman
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The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction.
Elizabeth Chadwick
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Parents who don't like Success should find a school they do like. For someone to enroll their child at Success and insist we change our model is like a person walking into a pizzeria and demanding sushi. If you want sushi, go to a sushi restaurant!
Eva Moskowitz
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My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.
Richard Simmons
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My mom really instilled in me this idea that parents are not perfect and they make mistakes.
George Clarke
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Growing up poor, I never missed out on anything. My parents did a beautiful job of not making me feel like I was lesser than any other kids.
Mila Kunis
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I do know that it’s hard to be the children of parents who are obsessed with each other.
Barbara O'Neal
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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
John Ruskin
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They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.
Sarah Silverman
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Children whose parents are reliable sources of comfort and strength have a lifetime advantage—a kind of buffer against the worst that fate can hand them.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I think my parents wanted me to be whatever I wanted to be. But I do remember them - when I first moved out to L.A. - sending me applications to grad school for teaching.
Riki Lindhome
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It's pretty funny when we go out to countries where the drinking age is 13 or 14, and we all go to bars and order and drink some stuff. Our parents will go, 'Hey!' And we go, 'We are legal to drink here!'
Ben Gillies Silverchair
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All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.
Gautama Buddha