Parents Quotes
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I remember I was supposed to take the bar exam that summer just when we got the chance to make our first feature. I told my parents I wasn't going to take the bar exam, and they were pretty upset about it.
Kevin Heffernan
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During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.
Yvon Chouinard
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The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
Jack Valenti
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I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.
Jodie Sweetin
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
Barbara Bush
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On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.
Hanna Rosin
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Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
Mamie Gummer
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I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my grandmother piece quilts, and we made pretty albums, an old-fashioned pastime. We cut poems and pictures out of magazines.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.
Dinaw Mengestu
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I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
Dallas Roberts
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My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.
Haley Reinhart
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I think it's just so important that parents actually really study the apps on the phones and figure out what's going on.
Karamo Brown
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Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?
Jef I. Richards
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My parents don't really understand my career. They don't really bring it up that much.
Kumail Nanjiani
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Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
Karen DeCrow
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I have been using Victorinox Cutlery since I was a young man, when my parents gave me a block set to properly equip me for my culinary apprenticeship.
Daniel Humm
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I'm really close to my parents.
Kathryn Newton
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I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.
Ian Mckellen
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“When I was young I had all the advantages. My father worked for Howard Hughes, we lived in Bel Air. I went to the best schools, and got the best girls. My intelligence quotient was well above average; and yet I could be a rebellious, troublesome punk who brought more than a little anxiety to my parents.”
Jan Berry
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My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
Daniel Bruhl
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The only thing I know is that no one ever sat in a therapist's or a psychiatrist's room saying, 'My parents just loved me too much.' The only thing you can do is love them and be around. Kids don't really care what your car is like or how big their house is. All they really care about is that you are around.
James Corden
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A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.
Saint Ambrose