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“I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.”

Thinking Children Self Seems Parent Differences Self Esteem Tough Concerned Assuming Western Esteem Behave Immigrants Fragility Psych Immigrant Parents

Author:Amy Chua

“Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.”

Should Littles Made Stills Mother Father Parent Half Generations Example Mom Dad Terrible Feminist Dinner Cooks Splits Household Chores Mom And Dad Household Chores

Author:Emily Oster

“Treat your career like a bad boyfriend... Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around... You have to care about your work, but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.”

People Thinking Feels Looks Care Parent Results Careers Treats Take Care Good People Introducing Flirting Bad Boy Bad Boyfriend

Author:Amy Poehler

“My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.”

Kind Wanted School Stuff Parent My Own Figures Dad Let Me My Dad Lectures Dyslexic

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their kids, the way you love a puppy or chocolate ice cream or home or your favorite book or your sister. Or your uncle. There's those kinds of love and then there's the other kind. The falling kind.”

“But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.”

Said Seems Kids Parent Fairs Smarter

Book:Out of The Easy

Source: Out of The Easy

“When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, their isn't a word to describe them. This month recognizes the loss so many parents experience across the United States and around the world. It is also meant to inform and provide resources for parents who have lost children due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, stillbirths, birth defects, SIDS, and other causes.”

“I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting’. And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.”

People Knows Years Might Three Courses Father Parent Term Wife Mets Function Difficulty West My Wife Indian Officials Three Years Bombay

Author:Glenn Turner

“Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.”

Stills Parent Christ Dear Employment Motive Toil Drudgery

Book:Elsie's Motherhood: A Sequel to

Source: Elsie's Motherhood: A Sequel to

“The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They grasped their tortured limbs, their tiny burning legs until they were no longer able to stand or run. And then they would crash to the ground where they would writhe in the bubbling tar until death released them from their physical misery.”

Running Able Parent Sound Misery Legs Accidents Tiny Burning Crash Limbs

Author:Martin Caidin

“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.”

“A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.”

Love Action Desire Parent Wise Absolutes Independent Motherhood Cease Parenthood Advisors Wise Parents

Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

“The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.”

Parent Elements Combination Infant

Book:D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader

Source: D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader

“The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages. As there may be fifty or sixty nights of gentle dews in one summer, that will not cause as much remark as one hailstorm of half an hour, so there are those who are more struck by those passages of the Bible that announce the indignation of God than by those that announce His affection.”

May Children Night Causes Parent Hours Half Summer Bible Letters Affection Warm Gentle Fifty Passages Sixty Remarks Dew Indignation Hailstorms

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.”

Children Young Wish Parent Members Delight Children And Parents My Wish Young And Old

Author:Walt Disney

“Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.”

Kids Able School Social Parent Plans Middle Discussion Fades Crude Middle School Supervision

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.”

Way Inspirational Children Different Time Parent Born Wise Words Our Children Raises Parenting Raised Your Children Raising Children Being A Parent Different Times Columnists Children Growing Up

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.”

Knows Years Lasts Parent Pieces Losing Window Glasses Driving Plates Shattered Splinters Losing A Parent

Book:Saul Bellow: Letters

Source: Saul Bellow: Letters

“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.”

Ifs Men Would Be Parent Race Watches Power Fate Childhood Minutes Objects Authority Absolutes Contrary Oppression Secure Perpetual Immense Manhood Gratification

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.”

Parent Shadow Casts Morrow

Book:My Disillusionment in Russia

Source: My Disillusionment in Russia

“Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.”

Men Mind May Shows Form Speak Language Parent Speech Spring Glasses Thee Retired

Book:Ben Jonson

Source: Ben Jonson

“I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.”

Young Girl Parent Boys Jokes Dirty Hated Pulling Gang This Girl Knickers Dirty Jokes Shoplifting

Author:John Lennon

“My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.”

Parent Decided Canada

Book:Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Source: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

“The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings, is a very strong influence.”

Knows Kind Lost Strong Parent Influence Hero Worship Faults Very Strong Hero Worship Misgivings Worship You

Author:Keri Russell

“My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave me The Lord of the Rings way too early for me to fully understand what I was reading, which was actually kind of cool. It was almost better - comprehension's overrated when you're reading.”

Way Writing Kind Kids Reading Parent Lord Rings Comprehension Fables Overrated

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“If my parents were alive, they'd giggle "John was an actor since day one!".”

Ifs Actors Parent Alive Giggle

Author:John Kapelos

“My dad was a lovely guy. I had great parents. But he was a conservative shopkeeper, and he said, "Look, I don't know how to help you as an actor, but if you want to be an actor, give it a go for a year. Get a job. And if you don't get a job, then we're going to reevaluate and you're going to go back to school." And I thought that was a fair thing.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Years Looks Said Helping School Jobs Guy Actors Parent Know How Dad Fairs My Dad Conservative Lovely Great Parents Shopkeepers

Author:John Kapelos

“My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.”

Kind Enough Parent Hours Talking

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.”

Mean Country Parent Amount Russia Best Things

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.”

Children Important Choices Parent Teacher Fronts Important Things Accountability Classroom Great Teacher

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Our rule is: If it makes the parent laugh, and the kid asks why, that can't be an uncomfortable conversation.”

Ifs Kids Asks Parent Laughing Conversation Uncomfortable

Author:Dan Povenmire

“In principle the first thing on the stream would be my birth certificate, a little electronic version of that, my parents would put my school records, health records, whatever of their child onto the stream. And the stream continues to flow forward through time.”

Firsts Children Littles Would Be School Parent Principles Records Birth Flow Versions Streams Rough Times Certificates Birth Certificate

Author:David Gelernter

“My parents are very well-behaved. If anything, if my Mom were here right now, she would hug and kiss every one of you hello, and then she would feed you.”

Ifs Wells Parent Mom Right Now Kissing My Mom Hug Hello

Author:Tina Fey

“I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.”

Years Parent Taught Great Things Great Parents Formative Years

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.”

Parent Realizing Teach Ruins Holocaust

Book:Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy

Source: Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy

“My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Bigs Wanted Stuff Parent Cities Lord Comedy Fans Dad Jazz My Dad Lakes Salt Hipster Beatnik Salt Lake City

Author:Judd Apatow

“I used to scream at everybody at the beginning of my career. I'd get really emotional. I'd project all my issues about my parents and safety onto the executives, so every conversation where they gave a note was life or death and you don't love me.”

Used Parent Careers Issues Emotional Conversation Projects Safety Notes Executives Scream Get Real Life Or Death You Don't Love Me

Author:Judd Apatow

“Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.”

Children Form Parent Party Abuse Child Abuse

Author:Dennis Miller

“I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They) let me know education is key and without it nowadays, you probably wouldn't be able to get a good job or have a decent living.”

Knows Able School Jobs Mother Parent Keys High School Let Me Organized Decent Good Job

Author:Jeremih

“My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.”

Giving Persons Parent Differences Taught Importance Making A Difference My Sister Giving Back

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don't have to be perfect. That's the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.”

Giving Trying Mean Parent Walks Perfect Keys Faithful Being Faithful Trying To Be Perfect

Author:Terry Crews

“The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.”

Want Bigs Father Left Parent Demand Big Things Left Alone Best Gift

Author:Terry Crews

“We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?”

Knows Art Parent Tree Dog Shapes Devil Horse Clever Eggs Bottles Tails Eden Carts Peg Wags Wag The Dog

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!”

Ifs Parent Jokes Hollywood Work Out Broadway

Author:Claudia Lee

“It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.”

Feels Mean Persons Different Bigs Able Moving Parent Authority Appreciate Mature Smarter Turning Points Points In Life

Author:Ryan Sheckler

“What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.”

“When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.”

Whole Dies House Parent Cards House Of Cards

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.”

Bigs Mother Courses Father Parent Deals Our Lives Died Giants Big Deal Father Died Titans Mother Died My Father Died

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.”

Trying Hands Parent Example Building Train Setting Settings Pulling Good Examples Setting A Good Example

Book:The Duties of Parents

Source: The Duties of Parents

“Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.”

Mother Dies Father Parent Saws Affair Los Angeles Sixty Flew Great Love Messed Up

Author:Saffron Aldridge

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