Parent Quotes
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Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
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Of course, when you're a parent, that's your paramount concern, for your children, and there were some very credible and frightening threats, and the agency declined to provide any security, and it felt like a betrayal all over again. It was really painful.
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That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty
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I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock 'n' roll bad together. I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I'm a pretty klutzy parent.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.
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I don't think anyone here supports the legislation. But I'd like to hear you at least say that you don't support spanking by any parent, because you choose not to do it. You must think it's wrong.
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Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.
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It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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I would definitely love to be a parent.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
