Best growing-up & parent Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.”

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Author:Richard Louv

“I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.”

Writing Has Beens Kids School Parent Growing Up Growing Kids Growing Up

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I know what's it's like to grow up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers and patients, to have access to accurate information.”

Knows Important Grows Parent Growing Up Information Patient Access Accurate Adhd Caregivers Accurate Information

Author:Ty Pennington

“I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.”

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Author:Michael Reagan

“Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they would joke that I had a Roman nose - that it was roamin' all over my face. Teasing was their way of showing love, but then you are young, sometimes you can't tell the difference.”

Way Sometimes Faces Young Parent Differences Attention Growing Up Growing Jokes Noses Tease Showing Love

Author:Neil Strauss

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”

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Author:Anne Frank

“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

Ifs World Hard Would Be Kids Wanted School Jobs America Felt Parent Chance Class Careers Growing Up Growing Middle Middle Class Good School

Author:Al Franken

“The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!”

Years Problem Bigs Kids Night Parent Morning Growing Up Growing Cooking Cafes Days Of The Year Menagerie

Author:Anthony Minghella

“My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.”

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Author:Sara Zarr

“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.”

Way Firsts Children Form Turns Grows Parent White Cities Growing Up Imagine Generations Streets Gay Breathe Flight Highways Obsolete Suburbs Lawns Skylines

Author:Herbert Muschamp

“Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.”

Shows Parent Growing Up Growing Python Monty

Author:Mathew Baynton

“My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.”

Wanted Grows Parent Space Growing Up Horse Open Spaces

Author:Schuyler Fisk

“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'”

People Jobs Mother Parent Education Growing Up Growing Daughter India China Dinner My Daughter Starving Homework China And India World Is Flat

Author:Thomas Friedman

“For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.”

Wells Children Kids Language Grows Parent Growing Up Example Skills Violent Lenient Language Skills

Author:Steven Pinker

“My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.”

Has Beens Father Grows Parent Growing Up Influence Profound Divorced

Author:Laura Linney

“I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.”

Children Home Opportunity Grows Parent Growing Up Missing Son Involved My Friends My Son

Author:Karen Hughes

“I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.”

Thinking Trying Believe Looks Enough Guy Song Fighting Father Names Strong Grows Parent Boys Growing Up Stupid Track Cash Strong Enough Like A Boy

Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.”

“I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things then them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right.”

Thinking Knows Way Different Kids Parent Opinion Know How Growing Up Wise Growing One Thing Appreciate Raised Different Things Hindsight You Think You Know Different Opinions

Author:Tiger Woods

“I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.”

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Author:William Gibson

“Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.”

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.”

Children Grows Parent Growing Up Rights Balance

Author:Warren Farrell

“The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.”

“When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.”

Play Kids Young Parent Growing Up Growing Auditions Boston Entertainers Downtown

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.”

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Author:Terry Gross

“My parents were very young when they had me. They were still growing up and learning themselves. They did the best they could, but my mom and dad split up when I was little... So that kind of made me stronger.”

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Author:Justin Bieber

“I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.”

“A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.”

Ifs Giving Trying Doe Self Reason Kids Games Grows Parent Responsibility Growing Up Failing Produce Healthy Adults Self Confidence Fixed Dependent

Author:Simon Sinek

“You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.”

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Author:Queen Victoria

“We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.”

World Night Left Grows Parent Marriage Growing Up Knowing Clear Growing Share Ships Who We Are Not Knowing

Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

“we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.”

Thinking Age Found Sex Grows Parent Growing Up Coming Of Age Cabbage

Book:The Burning Point

Source: The Burning Point

“I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.”

Thinking Made Moments Action Grows Parent Responsibility Growing Up Our Lives Consequence Blame Mess Our Actions Consequences Of Our Actions

Book:Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to be the kind of asshole who writes books about them. Also because it was sometimes easier than finding a nanny.”

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Book:I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

Source: I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

“No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.”

“Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked about the importance of making a first impression and that's stayed with me.”

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Author:Cam Newton

“you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; every way and every day: the parent is always wrong. So it is no good bothering about it. When the little pests grow up they will certainly tell you exactly what you did wrong in their case. But never mind; they will be just as wrong themselves in their turn.”

Way Trying Mind May Littles Hard Turns Grows Parent Cases Growing Up Bother Always Wrong Pests

Book:Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood

Source: Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood

“'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.”

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Author:Matt Groening

“When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.”

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Author:Michelle Monaghan

“My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me what's wrong and right, and knowing that I had a little brother following me, I had to make sure I was doing the right thing so he knows what's right, too. I was in the house nine days out of 10. There wasn't nothing good outside for me.”

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Author:Russell Westbrook

“I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.”

Sometimes School Found Parent Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up High School Let Me Surprise Familiar Auditions Movie Sets

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.”

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Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.”

Moments Home Eye Wanted School Remember Given Parent Watches Growing Up Growing Daughter My Daughter That Moment Single Parent

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.”

People Found Parent Cities Cases Growing Up Growing Dog New York Assuming New York City

Author:Jill Abramson

“As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.”

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Author:Eugene Jarecki

“My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.”

Thinking Way Grows Parent Growing Up Youth Ill

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.”

Kind Soul Parent Growing Up Growing Rocks Jazz Musical All Kinds Fortunate Broads Frank Motown Musical Education

Author:Mayer Hawthorne

“All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.”

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Author:J. Edgar Hoover

“Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The parents' job is to protect, the daughter's job is to explore.”

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Author:Mary Pipher

“The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.”

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