Parents Quotes
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It is important for children to grow up in a world where there are all kinds of adults and role models around them, for them to know it's not just parents and people who are parents that care about them, but that there are people who are living other kinds of lives.
Meghan Daum -
I always knew I was the center of my parents.
Chelsea Clinton
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My parents were immigrants.
Mario Cuomo -
I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.
Jennifer Grey -
I was seeing kids my age playing shows at their parents' houses or the couple of all-ages venues that existed. I feel like I saw so many different kinds of music that I wouldn't have discovered on my own.
Frankie Cosmos -
Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations.
Bono U2 -
I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
Tammin Sursok -
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
Mary Garden
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I grew up having the library as the best place ever. I spent a lot of weekends there as a kid - my parents would drop me off and leave me there all day. I would just sit in the back and read whatever I could find.
Karin Slaughter -
I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.
Katie Stevens -
I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
Deborah Norville -
My parents were immigrants who started a nursery as a way to get us kids through school. I learned around the dinner table about customer service and cash flow and paying bills.
Jack Dangermond -
I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.
Alexandra Fuller -
We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?
David Foster Wallace
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I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
Olivia Wilde -
With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?'
Brooklyn Decker -
Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.
Dan Webster -
My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.
Nadia Comaneci -
I was put into this business by my parents as soon as I could walk. I was groomed by them for this business. I didn't wake up at the early ages of 5 or 6 and say I want to be a star.
Irene Cara Escalera -
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis Diller
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My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that.
Dree Hemingway -
As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.
Jenna Bush -
My parents were extremely liberal. They didn't believe in being Catholic or Protestant, and that was a big deal at the time.
Jonathan Anderson -
I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
Enid Blyton