Parents Quotes
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Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.
Alison Gopnik
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I was a very hyper-active child and my parents just didn't know what to do with me.
Jay Ryan
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I left 'Spring Awakening,' and within a month of leaving the show, I came out to my parents and to my friends and broke up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment of my own and completely changed my life.
Jonathan Groff
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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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I'm carrying on a tradition. But I'd rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of somebody else. I'm proud of my parents, and the only way that I can prove it to them is to take what they gave me and work my head off.
Liza Minnelli
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I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives.
Forest Whitaker
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My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
Martin Lewis Perl
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My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
Larry Wilmore
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I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my parents were like, 'Wow! You have a really great voice!'
Rain Phoenix
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The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.
Rachel Blanchard
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I am definitely a Type A personality, always rushing around, trying to do too much, not good at just lying on the beach. But I'm so thankful for everything I have: wonderfully supportive parents and sisters, the best husband in the world, terrific students I love teaching and hanging out with, and above all, my two amazing daughters.
Amy Chua
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I can say this, now that my own beloved and irreplaceable parents are gone: George and Barbara Bush are parents anyone would kill to have.
Christopher Buckley
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We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.
Bill Drayton
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The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.
Jami Gertz
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Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.
Louise Hart
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Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.
Koichi Tanaka
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives.
Marisa Miller
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My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfather came in. He was also my inspiration for becoming an actor. I really respected him.
Christian Camargo
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Nobody in my family plays music professionally, but I definitely grew up around the culture of when my parents got together, as well as a lot of eating and drinking going on, they would also sing - they sat around in a circle, and everyone had a party piece.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
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I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.
Liya Kebede
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We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.
J. Courtney Sullivan
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Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.
Joan Cusack