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“There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied.”

People Past Parent Claims Prejudice Indian Heritage Denied Grandparent Ancestry Past And Present Parents And Grandparents Clouded

Author:Joseph Bruchac

“Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.”

Men Sometimes Truth Parent Liberty Deserve Claims Treated Propositions Decency Variance

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: In thirteen volumes. ...

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: In thirteen volumes. ...

“The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not qualify as a parent. For a child who can claim love without meeting any of the obligations of love will be a self-centered child and many such children have grown up in our time to become petulant lovers and sullen marriage partners because the promise of unconditional love has not been fulfilled.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.”

People Life Parent Born Company Taxes Fairs Claims Property Inheritance Not Fair Later In Life Offshore Doms Inheritance Tax

Author:George Osborne

“True love in Mexico isn't between lovers; it's between a parent and a child. Mexico is a very intense culture of sons adoring their mothers, and this is why I claim that Mexican culture is matriarchal. Because the one constant, faithful, inviolable, holy love of loves - the love of your life - is not your wife or your lover; it's your mother.”

Children Life Is Mother Culture Parent Wife Son Lovers Holy Claims Constant Intense Faithful Mexico Mexican Love Your Life Mexican Culture

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.”

Firsts Children Parent Duty Claims Obedience Contempt Wretched

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.”

Children Ideas Parent Quiet Claims Dancing Loud Thoughtful Observant Bossy

Author:Carrie Coon

“You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Humans I Can Two Whole Earth Suffering Parent Born Race Claims Human Race Old World Swept Away

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.”

Trying Children Sometimes Parent Pieces Claims Your Children Finding Yourself

Book:Vanishing Acts

Source: Vanishing Acts

“I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.”

Feels Would Be Lost Parent Cases Imagine One Thing Claims Crowds Uncles Tribes Cousin Aunt Sibling Aunts And Uncles

Book:Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.”

Children Past Parent Existence Claims Unbelievable Embarrassing Parental

Book:The Secret Keeper: A Novel

Source: The Secret Keeper: A Novel

“To raise positive kids, we as parents must identify the qualities necessary for success, convince our children that they have the potential for success, and show them how to stake their claims in life.”

Children Shows Kids Parent Quality Positive Claims Our Children Raises Convince Stakes

Book:Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

Source: Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

“It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.”

Children Matter Used Parent Sides Views Rights Duty Claims Our Children Used To Be My Children Unlimited Having Children Parent Child

Author:William Graham Sumner