O Quotes
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“Our parents are always an important part of our inner life.”
“Our parents are not the only people on this planet, and we should not base our life choices on what they want (what will bring them a peace of mind, satisfaction, and give them a reason to brag), but we should make those choices keeping in mind that there are upwards of 7,5 billion people in this world, and that we should use our talents and energy trying to improve the lives of as many of them as possible.”
Source: You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
“Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!”
“Our parents are our first oppressors.”
“Our parents are Our Gods.”
“Our parents are the worst for us, the most difficult to endure, precisely because they have the most intentions towards us. Hopes, dreams, needs for relationship. Acknowledgement.”
Source: Finding Life on Mars: A novel of isolation
“Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you may have the kind of parents that show you all the things about you that you want to get rid of and you realize those traits aren't yours at all but are merely your parents' marks that have rubbed off onto you.”
“Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.”
“Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.”
Source: Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice
“Our parents do not choose us, we choose them.”
“Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.”
“Our parents got to be kids. Now it's our turn.”
“Our parents had to drive us to the gig, or even go in with us because of the liquor laws. The owners were really scared to death that we'd drink. We usually just went out somewhere and smoked weed. I don't smoke anymore, but back then we used to smoke quite a lot.”
“Our parents have high hopes for us, and they're waiting for us to achieve something in life. young ones, you should don't let them down in life. At least we all have to be strong for those who love us, to protect them, this will be a Real.”
Source: Sukoon
“Our parents live inside us, whether they stick around or not... They express themselves through us in the way we hold a pen or shrug our shoulders, in the way we raise our eyebrow. Our heritage lingers in our blood.”
Source: Malibu Rising
“Our parents never structured our studies. "Let 'em learn what they like," my father used to say. "A child will eat a well-balanced diet if she's given a choice of wholesome foods and left alone. If a kid's body knows what it needs to grow and stay healthy, why wouldn't her mind, too?"
To his friends he explained, "My girls have free run of the forest and public library. They have a mother who is around to fix them lunch and define any words don't know. School would only get in the way of that. Besides, if they went to school, they'd spend over two hours a day in the car. Lord knows I could use the company on those drives, but it's better for my kids to stay in the woods."
So while other children were reciting their times tables and asking permission to get drinks of water, Eva and I were free to roam and learn as we pleased. Together we painted murals and made up plays, built forts, raised butterflies, and designed computer games. We made paper, concocted new recipes for cookies, edited newsletters, and caught minnows. We grew gourds and nursed fledglings and played with prisms, and our parents told the state that what we did was school.
For years I studied what I wanted to, when and how I wanted to study it. One book led to another in a random pattern, meandering from interest to interest like a good conversation, and the only thing that connected them was their juxtaposition on the bookshelves in mother's workroom.”
Source: Into The Forest
“Our parents prayer is the most beautiful poetry and expectations”
“Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language may not have been English, but the hopes and dreams they had for their children were purely American.”
“Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most feared: an incorrigible masturbator, a winsome homosexual, a recklessly impregnatory libertine. On our behalf they dreaded the closeness of adolescent friendship, the predatory behaviour of strangers on trains, the lure of the wrong kind of girl. How far their anxieties outran our experience.”
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.”
“Our parents were musicians.”
“Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child’s definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition.”
“Our parents were the types to cover our eyes in theaters when movies got violent and our ears if a conversation became explicit. They didn’t want us to grow up so fast that we’d forget what it was like when the only monsters in life were the ones under the bed.”
Source: The Secret Adoption: A Family Memoir
“Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.”
“Our parents will maybe sometimes when they are upset with us and we have been troublesome say something like "Mommy really doesn't like a naughty child." And we think that we have to earn the approval, earn the love of our parents. And then we transfer it to God and think we have to earn... We don't have to earn it! God loves us.”
“Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents.”
“Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.”
Source: Question Your Thinking, Change the World
“Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.”
“Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.”
“Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.”
“Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State
“Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.”
“Our participation on rebuilding Ba ga Mohlala it’s a relay.And I say this bcoz we are continuing with wat was established by the founder,back in 1500AD or so,but the participation its needed for the relay to be effective.The opportunities are there for us to create the resources to maintain and keep the relay operational.the blood power is there for us to make the relay achievable.
That is why Bare”Ke Mohlala Mmelega ditšhaba abuša a di bolotša, re dikgomo tša sefoka difulela maribeng le madibeng a kgole, mowe bokgaka le bonong ba palelang go fihla gona. Ke ka baka leo re binago raba raja ka gore re filwe bogoshi bja batho le dibata tša naga.”
“Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.”
“Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
“Our parting was like a stalemate….
Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost.
And worse still … that unshakable feeling that nothing was ever really finished.”
“Our partner's sexuality does not belong to us. It isn't just for and about us, and we should not assume that it rightfully falls within our jurisdiction.”
“Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964
“Our partnership is the primary bond. Not our kids. And as compelling as it is to turn our full attention to our new baby, our toddler, our young kids or our teens, if we leave our partner out in the cold, we will chip away at the very core of what holds our loving family together. We will, without doubt, put our family at risk. We have to find balance. Though it’s not always easy, with a little practice and a few simple shortcuts applied, we can realistically do it. Love is an active verb.”
Source: Naked Marriage: How to Have a Lifetime of Love, Sex, Joy, and Happiness
“Our parts are not problems to eliminate, but facets to welcome and embrace, recognizing their inability to disrupt our deeper state of being. If parts naturally recede into the background of experience, allow it, but making this a goal is unnecessary. If you become fixated on total dissolution to attain bliss, it's wise to examine this desire with curiosity. In an awakened state, all is welcomed without needing to make binary choices between spirit and matter, personal and universal, finite and infinite, samsara and nirvana. We can experience profound mystery because we embody both realms, always.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“Our parts matter because we matter.”
“Our party [Republicans] has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is to start a small business. That's why everything I'll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs. I want to keep their taxes down on small business. I want regulators to see their job as encouraging small enterprise, not crushing it.”
“Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation.”
“Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled”
“Our party has failed in going in to those places because we`ve said, well, we don`t get instant gratification back. So therefore, why go there. And we need to go there, show up and campaign in places where we`re uncomfortable.”
“Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.”
“Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.”
“Our party, like any other political party, strives for political supremacy for itself.”
Source: Collected Works, Volume 34: Letters, November 1895-November 1911
“Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!”
“Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany.”