Parent Quotes
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There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.
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The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.
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Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.
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For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.
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My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.
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I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.
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It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the fact that he cannot leave each of them a fortune does not really matter so much.
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Bruce sees in this character - who fought all the way through "Superheavy" when his parents were missing, and now is determined to fight even though his parents are telling him he's worth nothing - the essence of Batman.
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Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.
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Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse.
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It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
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As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.
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It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.
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I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.
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Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.
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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
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Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
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I'm growing up in Detroit, Michigan, both of my parents were gun owners, and that they taught us how to safely and carefully utilize them, because we had businesses, and they showed us out of a sense of protection. But that was something that was used to never use a gun unless you intend - never play with a gun unless you use it to intend - intend to use it. But it was for protection only.
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Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.
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Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.
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There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.
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I come from a very big family. Nine parents.
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My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.
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Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.
