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“Having settled down in the promised land of money and adventure - returning to a land of your parents last days can be a big dilemma to many. Isn't your greatest wealth your parents, and the best adventure - to see them happy before they go.”

“Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another's individuality.”

“We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.”

Children Earth Parent Our Children Stealing

Author:David R. Brower

“My parents were incredibly inclusive.”

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Author:Damian Lewis

“My parents are pretty cool people.”

People Parent Cool People

Author:Dominic Monaghan

“When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.”

Made Whole Young Parent Acting Watches Entertainment Jimmy Mystique Old Music

Author:James Wolk

“I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.”

Men Parent White Personality Raised Refuse Tall White Man Defects Entitlement Underdog

Author:Mindy Kaling

“You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.”

Needs Stills Parent Poor Habit Eating Active Need You I Need You Eating Habits

Author:Bob Harper

“Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have children if they have any intention of leaving their side in their early years. . . . Children don't need parents' full-time attendance or attention at any stage of their development. Many people will help take care of their needs, depending on who their parents are and how they chose to fulfill their roles.”

People Ifs Needs Should Years Children Helping Care Today Mother Parent Sides Attention Roles Stage Development Intention Males Leaving Take Care Experts Attendance

Author:Stella Chess

“Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.”

Way Looks Children Parent Teach Streets One Way Crossings Crossing The Street

Author:Graham Kendall

“There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it's possible to extract some wisdom from the suffering of past generations of parents. Does the book you're reading contradict itself repeatedly, require you to override all your parental instincts, or send you into a panic over your own inadequacy? If so, burn it.”

Ifs May Doe Book Past Suffering Reading Parent Answers Generations Baby Offers Instinct Over You Panic Parental Inadequacy Past Generations

Author:Libby Copeland

“The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.”

Parent Substitutes Aunt Conspirators

Book:Harrison Squared

Source: Harrison Squared

“My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.”

Giving Children Made School Parent Numbers Our Children Priorities Your Children Best Gift

Author:Debra Messing

“I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.”

Long Mother Parent Grew Dad Grew Up Distance My Dad Drivers Long Distance Birmingham Barbados Catering Lorry

Author:David Harewood

“My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as Im in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.”

Has Beens Stills Parent Decision Acting Worry Wise Proud Tough Profession Guarantees Tough Times

Author:David Harewood

“Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.”

Firsts Moments Life Is Choices Parent Wonderful Extraordinary Our Family That Moment Wonderful Things Extraordinary Things Choices You Make

Author:Angelina Jolie

“What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too?”

Parent Cookies Santa

Author:Will Ferrell

“My parents walked in on me Googling 'agents for kids' when I was 9.”

Kids Parent Agents

Author:Graham Phillips

“I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'”

Years Parent Married Parents Marriage

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college.”

Home Parent College Lessons Hardest Guidance

Book:The Dorm Room Diet: The 10-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works

Source: The Dorm Room Diet: The 10-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works

“A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.”

Knows Men Children Doe Care Running Mother Father Parent Policy Deserve Sick Mad Hardship Episodes Workplace Days Off Mad Men Sick Children

Author:Barack Obama

“It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.”

Way Firsts Said Kids Young Parent Approach Consequence Obesity Overweight

Author:Lisa Ling

“I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.”

Parent Rooms Acting Watches Critics Screens Dislike Insecure

Author:Sophie Turner

“I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.”

Kind Littles Play Whole Action Fun Bits Parent Figures Little Bit Odd Surreal Dolls Whole Family Action Figures

Author:Juliet Landau

“I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills - that looks like me in real life'. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true.”

Thinking Looks Real Kids Parent Bed Moved Real Life Like Me Relate Chasing Coping Spills Why Me Unmade Beds

Author:Sharon Stone

“I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.”

Stills Parent Realizing Approval Craving

Author:Andrew Stanton

“When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.”

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Author:Carre Otis

“There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.”

Children Moments Universe Parent Realizing Your Children

Author:Carre Otis

“I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show Nanny 911 occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.”

Children Stills Shows Waiting Parent Television Regret And Love Guilt Tunes No Regrets Television Shows Having Children Nannies Have No Regrets Good Parent Patience And Love

Author:Amanda Donohoe

“My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.”

Parent Study Mets Enlightened Hippie

Author:Paulo Costanzo

“I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isnt always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.”

Knows Way Giving Should Children Two Parent My Own Son Should Have Divorce Backgrounds Best Way Therapy My Son Stable Family Life

Author:Regina King

“When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.”

Actors Parent

Author:Alec Baldwin

“It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.”

Kind House Parent Height Mystic Deserted Moors

Author:Joanne Froggatt

“My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.”

People Parent Study Wonderful Expectations Practicals Sensible Academic

Author:Gemma Chan

“It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.”

Long Parent Acting Company Careers Player Feet Land Stage India England Performing Courtesy Up And Down

Author:Felicity Kendal

“My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.”

Persons Sometimes Mother Father Parent Church Neighbor Ministers Gentleman Terrific

Author:Jane Pauley

“The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.”

World Want Lasts Dies Parent Stage Let Me

Author:Emma Stone

“Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.”

Problem Joy Parent Dog Source Unusual Single Parent

Author:Jenna Morasca

“My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.”

Parent Acting Advise Pressured

Author:Emilia Fox

“I am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.”

Parent Talking Fire Sitting My Family Couches

Author:Shantel VanSanten

“England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.”

Children Strong Parent One Day England Islands Exhausted Being A Parent

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits

“Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.”

Men Heart Book Parent Feet Sweet Proud Commit Pens Swear Spouse Brothels Lenders

Author:William Shakespeare

“In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.”

Wells Parent Deserve Reverence Despised

Book:Rasselas

Source: Rasselas

“Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.”

Parent Liberty Economy Integrity Ease Cheerfulness Temperance

Book:The Adventurer

Source: The Adventurer

“Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.”

Men Sometimes Truth Parent Liberty Deserve Claims Treated Propositions Decency Variance

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: In thirteen volumes. ...

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: In thirteen volumes. ...

“Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.”

Kids Choices Parent Driving Mcdonalds

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.”

Stars Parent Example Manners Infant Nativity

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, "Thats fine. We support you, but you have to go to school", which was fine because I'm a studious person anyway, I enjoy it.”

Trying Persons Said Dream School Moving Parent Enjoy Acting Support Fine High School Pursue Support You Studious After High School

Author:Josie Loren

“As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.”

Want Humans Children Character Kids Able Parent Sides Human Beings Figures Shapes Our Children Clarity Your Children Good Character

Author:Joan Cusack

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