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“Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'”

Thinking Wells Kind Children Guy Parent Interest Loses Five Brother Pressure Load Eldest

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.”

Years Moments Parent Five Mom My Mom Hips Five Years

Author:Kay Panabaker

“At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.”

Children Persons School Parent Millions Five Cost Thousand Twenties Pounds Moderates Calculations Twenty Five Metropolis Sterling

Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

“When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.”

Writing Years Kind Parent Five Magic Casts Five Years Chests Spells Five Year Olds

Author:Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.”

Way Together Jobs Parent Five Normal Nine Family Life Normal Family

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.”

Wells Character Age Speak Parent Chance Five Thousand Twenties Clean Photograph Average Thirty Justified Initials Twenty Five Birthright Nicknames Composites Clean Living

Book:Average Jones

Source: Average Jones

“Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child.”

Children Has Beens Father Parent Sin Five Prison Visiting Sins Of The Father

Author:Sam Brownback

“I grew up in a very small house with five brothers and sisters and my parents, all with one little bathroom. And from as early as I can remember, seven, eight years old, I was listening to music to get a way from it all. Then the discovery of all this amazing stuff that became more than just getting away from it, it became a part of my DNA.”

Way Years Littles I Can Remember House Stuff Parent Five Brother Listening Grew Grew Up Discovery Seven Eight Get Away Brothers And Sisters Dna Bathroom Listening To Music

Author:John Varvatos

“Im completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.”

School Parent Five Grew Grew Up Moved Paris

Author:Jemima West

“I had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.”

Years Parent Party Five Dad My Dad Noses Fake Hats Tails Halloween Pipe My Birthday Lashes Moustache Prosthetics Top Hats Halloween Party

Author:Bat for Lashes

“I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.”

Stuff Parent Hours Watches Five Grew Dad Six Grew Up News My Dad Foxes Right Wing Ohio Fox News Cincinnati Ohio

Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt

“My parents split up when I was five, and that changed my life as well. I wasn't used to seeing them away from each other. I had to get used to seeing my dad without my mom. Those things affected the music that I make.”

Wells Used Parent Five Seeing Changed Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Affected Splits Changed My Life Away From Each Other

Author:Joey Badass

“My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.”

Years Different Mother Father Parent Religious Christianity Five Teacher Thirty Five Years Traveled Nigeria Evangelists

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.”

“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.”

“That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.”

Thinking Years Parent Five Wonderful Mets Tongue Five Years Tied Youngsters Atlanta Five Year Olds Tongue Tied Wonderful Parents

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.”

“The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.”

Needs Years Children Long Parent Understanding Support Struggle Five Friends Engaged Five Years Allies Five Year Olds Frantic Forecasts Parent Child

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.”

I Can Different Play Age Parent Five Dad Musician Twenties Instruments Incredibles My Dad Thirty Categories Vegas Twenty Five Playing Drums Instrumentalists

Author:Billy Sherwood

“When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."”

Want Said Humor Kids Funny Parent Five Thousand Dollars Notes They Said No Respect Kidnapped

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I'm sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can't imagine why they kept me.”

Years I Can Important Stories Mother Father Parent Five Four Imagine Heard Five Years Survivor Holocaust Making Love Five Year Olds

Author:Christian Boltanski

“You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Children Book Parent Five Minutes Stupid Six Children's Books Compact

Author:Michael Ian Black

“The point is that families today are spending their money no more foolishly than their parents did. And yet they're five times more likely to go bankrupt, and three times more likely to lose their homes. Families are going broke on the basics - housing, health insurance, and education. These are the kind of bills that you can't just trim around the edges in the event of a downturn.”

Kind Home Today Three Parent Loses Five Events Bills Edges Spending Broke Three Times Housing Basics Downturn Families Today

Author:Amelia Warren Tyagi

“Certainly there was the Affordable Care Act part, then unaccompanied children [there has been a surge of children entering the country illegally and without parents, particularly in Texas], and things like, we find smallpox in an NIH lab, after 50 years? Why didn't you find it, like, five weeks ago or three years ago? There was thing after thing. But the big ones were [dealing with] the Ebola [outbreak], the unaccompanied children. [It was] perhaps a bigger challenge than I had calculated on my yellow pad as I was thinking about this role.”

“If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the womb.”

Ifs Children Age Parent Five Worst Our Children Your Children Womb

Author:Bill Cosby

“According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.”

Two Parent Five Teaching Dad Aspect Prepared Seven My Dad Traveled Drumming Percussion Road Life

Author:Questlove

“I don't sleep much. Five to six, I'd say. You could argue that people, as they get older, sleep less - probably because they're afraid of dying at some point. I know my parents don't sleep much. I know that I used to be able to sleep until noon when I was younger. I couldn't fathom staying in bed until ten now. I wouldn't know what to do unless there's a football game on.”

People Knows Able Used Games Parent Sleep Five Dying Football Bed Ten Six Arguing Used To Be Staying Noon Fathom Football Game

Author:George Clooney

“So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to pianos and musical instruments. Whenever we went to a friend's house, I vaguely recall climbing up on the piano, plunking on it, and trying to figure it out. So my parents figured I was interested and asked me if I wanted to take piano lessons. I said sure.”

Ifs Trying Said Wanted House Parent Five Four Figures Lessons Instruments Musical Piano Climbing Recalls Musical Instruments Piano Lesson Climbing Up

Author:Vienna Teng