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“My parents are amazing, but when I was like, “Well, I’m going to be an actress,” and they’re all doctors, that wasn’t the best and easiest thing to do, you know. So I’m sure that I probably went through a year period when I wasn’t telling them exactly what I was doing. But I think that’s going to evolve.”

Years Wells Parent Periods Doctors Actresses Evolve Things To Do

Author:Reshma Shetty

“I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.”

Thinking Writing Stories Used Parent Worry Shy

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.”

Ifs Knows Mean Country Dream Able Wanted Parent Lucky Broads

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Years Mind Parent Responsibility Teacher Honestly Educator Being A Parent Molding

Author:Eva Amurri

“First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.”

Firsts Humans Parent Fire Sacrifice Blood Cry Tears Kings Noise Loud Idols Grim Unheard

Author:John Milton

“Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.”

Giving Children School Choices Parent Leader Taxes Credit Arizona Charter Tuition Charter Schools School Choice

Author:Jane D. Hull

“No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests”

Ifs Wells Children School Parent Interest Teacher Partnership Behalf Parents And Teachers

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.”

Young Girl Winning Parent Horror Vans Dismayed Van Helsing

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.”

Children Parent Enjoy Can Do Challenges Effort Mistake Teach Mindset Best Things Growth Mindset Intrigued

Book:Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Source: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.”

Way Children Moments Parent Perfect Plenty Perfect Moments Perfect Parents Perfect Child

Author:Dave Willis

“If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.”

Ifs Men Mind Parent Serving Sincere Virtuous Sincerely Intercourse Confucian

Book:The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide

Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide

“The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.”

Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

“With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.”

Children Past Parent Generations Our Children Our Future Our Past Future Generation

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.”

Children Mother Parent Existence Childhood Chains Links

Book:Venetia

Source: Venetia

“What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.”

Doe Stills Age Parent Produce Wasting Time Vicious Posterity Progeny Not Wasting Time

Author:Horace

“I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.”

Children Enough Seems Nations Parent Attention Strange Caught Manners Echoes Elders Precocious

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.”

Knows Wells Children Enough Parent Practice Dog Fine Degrees Favors Excellent Scent Hunts Parent Child Barometer

Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.”

Age Certain Parent Judging Dad Your Dad

Author:Ellie Goulding

“'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.”

Knows Way Long Care Wanted Young Felt Parent Missing Havens Dad Long Time Angry My Dad Bitter My Way Divorced Like Something

Author:Ellie Goulding

“Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]”

Parent Virtue Ambition Vices

Author:Quintilian

“I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When I got my own apartment for the very first time and they came to stay with me for the weekend, I made them stay in separate bedrooms.”

People Way Firsts Looks Made Stills Parent My Own Wonderful First Time Weekend Apartment Bedroom Strict Stay With Me Love My Parents I Love My Parents

Author:Elayne Boosler

“Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and preserved. Virtue has all things in herself; he who has virtue has all things that are good attending him. [Lat., Virtus praemium est optimum. Virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto. Libertas, salus, vita, res, parentes, Patria et prognati tutantur, servantur; Virtus omnia in se habet; omnia assunt bona, quem penes est vertus.]”

Children Country Parent Liberty Virtue Highest All Things Safety Property Rewards Protected Attending Optimum

Author:Plautus

“Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.”

Suffering Names Parent Deserve Doubtful Stepmothers

Author:Pliny the Elder

“Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.”

Mean Children Long Home Parent Challenges Risk Danger Abuse Politically Correct

Author:Michael Gove

“My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.”

People World Trying Parent Strange Better Place

Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured.”

Knows Way Children Matter Parent Produce Assured Inheritance Progeny Loafers

Book:The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

Source: The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

“Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.”

Children Character Parent Wonder Strange Envy Egotism Offspring Perversity

Author:William Hazlitt

“In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.”

Children Moments Parent Family Judging Intimate Family Life

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.”

Self Age Parent Creatures Independent Companion Charming Employed Selection Troublesome Untamed

Author:Rose Macaulay

“One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.”

Reason Dies Left Parent Audience Theater Shocking

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.”

Parent Vices Expensive Ennui

Author:Ninon de L'Enclos

“Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.”

Children Parent Gambling Avarice Gaming

Book:L.P.

Source: L.P.

“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.”

Children Reality Parent Family Respect Appreciate Parenting Christian Inspirational Upbringing Respecting Others Disrespect Respectability Disrespectful Great Parenting

Author:Billy Graham

“If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.”

Ifs Children Parent Our Children Faults Your Children Neurotic

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.”

Children Real Home Parent Strange Citizens Neighbor Mysterious Regions Sibling Unfathomable Apparitions

Book:Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

“Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.”

Mind Parent Virtue Misery Sensibility

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“organization is the religion of the single parent.”

Parent Organization Single Parent

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.”

Parent Sin Modern Crime Hunger Starvation

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child. And the little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why are we hanging onto it, I don't know. It isolates people into little units - people need a larger unit.”

People Knows Needs Children Littles Two Whole Parent Black Community White Family Raises Nuclear Working It Black People Units Paradigm Nuclear Families

Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]”

Heart Parent Virtue Gratitude Thankful Heart Animus

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier.”

Children Made Book Character Parent Cities Strange Scene Discovery Towns Mere Manners Native Regions Observing Alarms Visiting

Book:History of New York. Sketch book. Bracebridge Hall

Source: History of New York. Sketch book. Bracebridge Hall

“I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.”

Feelings Home Values Parent Delicious

Book:The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq

Source: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq

“... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.”

Knows Way Should Children Hard Parent

Book:A Window Over the Sink

Source: A Window Over the Sink

“we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.”

Thinking Knows Long Done Parent Alive

Book:At Seventy: A Journal

Source: At Seventy: A Journal

“It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.”

Children Shows Father Belief Parent Pleasure Generations Son Taste Tendencies Denial Denied Abnormal Clergymen

Book:The Story of a Literary Career

Source: The Story of a Literary Career

“Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.”

Parent Saved Unemployment Unseen Inflation Robbers

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.”

Parent Common Education Son Common Sense Expenses Evermore

Author:John Dryden

“The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.”

Mind Parent Teacher Easier Average Conformity Parents And Teachers Average Minds

Book:Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures

Source: Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures

“God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.”

Parent Masters

Book:The Works of the Rev. George Hebert

Source: The Works of the Rev. George Hebert

“True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear: Humility the parent of the first, The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.”

Firsts Lasts Parent Grace Humility Shame Blind Vanity Modesty Counterfeit Discerning

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

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