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“Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.”

“I am now pretty far advanced in life, and all my views are center'd in the Happiness and well-fare of my children; you will therefore find from me every Indulgence which you have a right to expect from an affectionate Parent.”

Wells Children Parent Views My Children Indulgence Affectionate

Author:George Mason

“Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of training in the professions and vocations in life; to be regulated on the capacity of children to learn, and not on the ability of parents to pay the costs. Training for life's work to be as much universal and thorough for all walks of life as has been the training in the arts of killing.”

Children Has Beens Art School Opportunity Parent Ability Walks Pay College Cost Equal Training Capacity Universal Institutions Killing University Profession Vocation Thorough Walks Of Life

Author:Huey Long

“A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children's souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler's daughter, and the dead youth at Nain?”

Children Soul Body Suffering Parent Christ Gone Youth Daughter Ears Miracle Our Children Portions Rulers Deaf Urgent Request

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement - they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah.”

“There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.”

Parent Forever

Author:Anthony Quinn

“The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true - although it sounds good! - but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me.”

Ifs Knows Littles Two Ends Hands Parent Sound Black Four Taught The End Of The Day Pairs Frozen Skates Rumours Two Sisters

Author:Bobby Hull

“The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's good and what's out there, they are very special. They have a kind of wisdom that a lot of people don't have.”

People Kind Children Care Parent Teacher Special Advise Librarian Children And Parents

Author:Julie Andrews

“In a sense, in the area of child care, children's relationships with parents' working has come full circle. We have gone from the mom-and-pop store (or mom-and-pop farm), with its integration of child care and work, to children-at-home and dad-at-work; to the mom-plus-daddy working at home, with its integration of childcare and work again. From mom-and-pop back to mom-and-pop.”

Children Home Care Parent Gone Mom Dad Areas Pops Stores Circles Plus Farms Integration Daddy Child Care Full Circle Childcare

Book:Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

“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 irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb.”

Men Children Hands Law Parent Careers Rights Equal Males Financial Feminist Arguing Primaries Irony Assets Womb Equal Rights

Author:Warren Farrell

“Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).”

Children Parent Birth Divorce Raising Children Taboo Birth Control Single Parent

Author:Warren Farrell

“It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.”

Ifs Made Given Parent Miracle Enormous Just Being Given Life

Author:Warren Farrell

“Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family; parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parent loses, so lose the children.”

Children Father Parent Loses Influence Involved Destruction Eras Emergence Reconstruction Visitation

Author:Warren Farrell

“When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.”

Children Parent Support Deny Psychological

Author:Warren Farrell

“The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.”

Years Children Past Parent Middle Caught Children And Parents

Book:The Middle Ground

Source: The Middle Ground

“I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.”

Children Helping Might Eye Able Felt Parent Dying Tears Involved

Author:C. Everett Koop

“You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.”

“A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.”

Grows Parent Tree Shadow

Book:Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower

“I think any sport needs to be accessible, affordable and practiced within the confines of a safe environment. Parents who have young children want to be able to leave their child somewhere which has good facilities and where they're going to be looked after.”

Thinking Want Needs Children Able Young Sports Parent Environment Safe Facility Affordable Young Children Safe Environment

Author:Hope Powell

“Google says young people don't care about privacy, but when asked if they'd let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no.”

People Ifs Care Young Stuff Parent Bills Phones Don't Care Privacy Google

Author:Nick Harkaway

“By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.”

Kids Parent Wonder Drug Symbols Pregnant Addict Chicks Drug Addict Status Symbol What Did I Do Wrong

Author:Andrew Dice Clay

“When you're at your own parents' funeral, when you're at somebody that you love's funeral, you realize how precious life is. And you say, "As long as I can walk and I'm healthy, there's always tomorrow."”

Long I Can Life Is Parent Realizing Walks Tomorrow Healthy Funeral Precious Life How Precious Life Is

Author:Andrew Dice Clay

“Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.”

Firsts Language Parent Television Grandparent Sign Language

Author:Jack Jason

“When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I lived, it wasn't embarrassing to have Deaf parents; it was cool to be able to speak a different language than everyone else.”

Different Able Speak Language Parent Grew Grew Up Phones Video Embarrassing Deaf Phone Calls Different Languages

Author:Jack Jason

“When Marlee [Matlin] won her Oscar, she said, "and I just want to thank my parents." When I was saying those words for her, I knew my parents were in the audience. I was saying it for her and a little bit for myself, even though I wasn't saying it in sign language and they didn't understand what I was saying.”

Want Littles Said Language Bits Parent Audience Little Bit Oscars Sign Language

Author:Jack Jason

“I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health care for those who are served under Medicaid, that end our duty or violate our duty to our parents through Medicare. I just couldn't do that. As long as I'm president, I'll never let it happen.”

Children Long Ends Happens Care Parent President Environment Cutting Duty Taxes Our Children Health Care Guarantees Our Environment Medicare Tax Cuts Medicaid

Author:William J. Clinton

“I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning and see a whole community getting up and going to work. We want these young people to know the thrill of the first paycheck, the challenge of starting that first business, the pride in following in a parent's footsteps.”

“A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.”

Should May Children Jobs Parent Doctors

Author:William J. Clinton

“[Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with kids caught up with drugs, and plenty of absentee parents have kids who never touch the stuff.”

Ifs Kids Stuff Parent Worst Drug Addiction Caught Awful Plenty Caught Up Drug Addiction Drug Addict Loving Parents

Author:Roxanne Roberts

“I used read about Dr. King a lot as a kid. Independently, from being assigned it or being told by my parents or anything, I was just really excited about him. So I just started reading about him very young and was inspired by his legacy and looked to him as a role model.”

Kids Young Used Reading Parent Roles Kings Models Inspired Excited Legacy Role Models Drs

Author:John Legend

“One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."”

Kids Parent Hurt Break Taught Stones Sticks Bones Hurt Me Sticks And Stones

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

“I do think that the role of the Internet, and the way it's bringing everything into the home, has made a parent's job much more difficult. And it's harder to know what to do and how to do it. It's much, much harder.”

Thinking Knows Way Made Home Jobs Parent Difficult Roles Internet Harder

Author:William J. Clinton

“When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but I feel that I did learn a lot about my parents.”

Knows Feels Parent Things Change

Author:Maya Forbes

“My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing.”

People Knows Children Left Parent Mom My Mom Impression Favorites Things Outgoing

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to make up for their own childhood of crushed dreams and misspelled words.”

People Trying Children Dream Parent Childhood Bees Crushed Spelling Misspelled Words

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and "wisdom" and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.”

Thinking Able Wish Parent Information Taught Locals Heritage Grandparent Local History

Author:Gary Gygax

“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”

“Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.”

“Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.”

Children Made Hands Parent Materials Adam Clay

Book:Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future

Source: Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future

“I have a rule of thumb now and that's that somebody [she dates] has to have been married and they have to have had kids. Everything boils down to perspective. If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.... If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise ... [and] if they don't have children, they don't know the absolute self-sacrifice it takes and what it means to be a parent.”

Ifs Knows Mean Children Doe Has Beens Self Kids Lost Parent Sacrifice Perspective Married Absolutes Compromise Mates Thumbs Self Sacrifice

Author:Eva LaRue

“Obviously no parent does everything right. It's this weird thing that happens where you are striving to be as good as you can be so that they turn out well. And that requires that you be a really great, evolved, aware person in every moment. Which is pretty awesome. But it's also putting tremendous pressure on yourself--which is why women feel so guilty!”

Feels Wells Persons Doe Moments Happens Turns Parent Pressure Strive Guilty Where You Are Really Great Weird Things

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.”

Parent Nice Childhood Summer Garden Dishes Daddy Washing Really Nice Allowance Great Parents Washing Dishes

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.”

Parent Credit Who I Am

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!”

World Happens Mother Felt Parent Opinion Advice Horror Discovery Prejudice Folks Realising Superiority Propositions Scorned

Book:Love Over Scotland

Source: Love Over Scotland

“You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.”

Children Matter Parent Wise Our Children Your Children Adam Being A Parent

Book:Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

“There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.”

“I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And so, I looked around and when I was at high school, probably 14 or so, my parents through friends arranged for me to be able to go work on farms on the weekend.”

Thinking Reason Able Wanted School Parent High School Enjoyed Reason Why Farms Weekend Farming Initials

Author:Ian Wilmut

“The deer aren't our prey or our possessions -- they're us. They're us at one point in the cycle of life and we're them at another point in the cycle. The deer are twice your parents, for your mother and father are deer, and the deer that gave you its life today was mother and father to you as well, since you wouldn't be here if it weren't for that deer.”

Ifs Wells Today Mother Father Parent Possession Cycles Prey Deer Mother And Father Cycle Of Life

Author:Daniel Quinn

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