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Author:Terry Bradshaw

“I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.”

Want Girl Parent Grew Married Grew Up

Author:Camila Alves

“Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.”

Moving Parent Grew Proud Grew Up My Family Canada Scottish Scots

Author:Callum Keith Rennie

“My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.”

Giving Would Be Fighting Left Parent Difficult My Own Childhood Battle Disease Giving Up Warrior Substitutes Stable Stoic

Author:Joni Mitchell

“I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.”

Thinking Littles Self Remember Faces Used Parent Half Fronts Walking Crowds Applause Folding Walking Out

Author:Dallas Roberts

“Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.”

Should Years Names Parent Imagine Years Ago Flattered

Author:Bill Gates

“Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.”

Years Firsts Feelings Parent Dark Four Journey Losing Angry Sorry Eight Four Years Feeling Bad Losing A Parent

Author:Lauren Miller

“I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'”

Men Care Turns Parent My Own Taken College

Author:Eric Close

“My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder.”

Made Bigs Might Artist Parent Wonder Adventure Draws Hot Chickens No Money Places To Go Sense Of Wonder Pastel

Author:Ali MacGraw

“I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.”

Would Be Wanted School Stuff Parent Share Worst Stupid Healthy High School Fairs Worst Things Disappoint Fair Share Healthy Fear

Author:Christine Lakin

“My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.”

People Care Life Is Parent Compassion Kindness Risk Honesty Danger Taught Adventure Truth Honesty Danger In Life

Author:Brian Blessed

“My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school.”

Should School Parent Son Proud Drama Theatre Coal Scholarship Unheard Miners Coal Miners

Author:Brian Blessed

“As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.”

Giving Children Wanted Remember Parent

Author:Rani Mukerji

“Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think its important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.”

Thinking Wells Children Two Important Together Parent Teacher Teaching Fields Garden Accomplish Two Things Farms Connecting Curriculum Get Together Parents And Teachers Field Trip

Author:Alice Waters

“Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.”

Thinking Needs Humans Important Actors Social Parent Human Beings Acting Schooled Social Service

Author:Tyne Daly

“I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.”

Way Feels Children Made Hard Wish Parent Healthy Weight Our Children Your Children Pounds Linked Healthy Weight

Author:Arabella Weir

“My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.”

Parent Simple Generations Fats

Author:Arabella Weir

“Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.”

Thinking Looks Actors Parent Raised Scripts Storyteller

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“Religion is a personal, private matter and parents, not public school officials, should decide their children's religious training. We should not have teacher-led prayers in public schools, and school officials should never favor one religion over another, or favor religion over no religion (or vice versa). I also believe that schools should not restrict students' religious liberties. The free exercise of faith is the fundamental right of every American, and that right doesn't stop at the schoolhouse door.”

“You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.”

People Firsts Children Humor Kids Political Speak Language Parent Cities Easier Tests Folks Quitting Racist Political Humor Speak English Inner City

Author:George W. Bush

“I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.”

Years Humans Children Humor Form Parent Religious Saws Ordinary Devil Touched Twelve

Book:The Life of Luther Written by Himself

Source: The Life of Luther Written by Himself

“The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“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

“Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his amorous passions was never diverted from their lawful objects. The proud titles of Imperial greatness were adorned by the tender names of a faithful husband, an indulgent father; his uncle was raised, by his affectionate esteem, to the rank of a second parent.”

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus

“It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.”

Should Parent Education Son Train Noble Evident

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to each other and even to ourselves. It is precise, disciplined, and enormously compassionate. Most important, once we study NVC we can't ignore the potential for transformation that lies in any difficult relationship - if we only bother to communicate with skill and empathy.”

“Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.”

Today School Reading Process Parent Teacher Planets Communication Nonviolent Communication Cornerstones Administrators

Author:Robert Muller

“Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool.”

“I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.”

Years Two War Kids Parent Military Huge Mom Dad Discipline

Author:Robert Griffin III

“My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.”

Looks Self Bigs Parent Race Identity Color Raised Self Identity

Author:Robert Griffin III

“Parents give birth; the Guru gives life. These life-givers are the soul of the magnificent building. The school building which the government can construct is like the body, but the teachers are the soul.”

Giving Soul Body Government School Parent Education Teacher Building Birth India Magnificent Constructs Guru Giver School Buildings

Author:Narendra Modi

“My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.”

Two School Jobs Parent College High School My Family Accomplishment Representatives Great Job Two Sisters Greatest Accomplishment

Author:Robert Griffin III

“There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.”

Ifs Thinking Children Stills Matter Age Certain Dies Parent No Matter What Realising

Author:Rupert Graves

“When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else.”

Wells Lasts Parent Chance Gone Reconciliation Mourn Last Chance

Author:Joan M. Drury

“I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.”

Ifs Years Remember Parent Seven Agents If I Could Remember When Seven Years

Author:Meaghan Rath

“I fully believe in ghosts. I have, my entire life. The first house I ever lived in was haunted. There was a grave of a man in the backyard. I was just a baby then, but my parents would tell me that every night, at the same time, they would hear someone walking up the stairs.”

Men Firsts Believe Night House Parent Baby Walking Graves Ghost Every Night Stairs Backyards

Author:Meaghan Rath

“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.”

Children Has Beens Facts Might Parent Sides Deals Generations Expected Manners Rising Impressed Rudeness Parent Child Bad Manners

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“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.”

States Moving Parent Loss United United States Growing Up Growing Building

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being cheered on by the Swedish fans, and with his game style being like mine, I drew comparisons with him.”

Used Games Parent Watches Fans Style Mines Comparison Cash Australian Swedish

Author:Lleyton Hewitt

“If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.”

Ifs Looks Children Strong Sports Parent Support Influence Athlete Superiors Introducing Parental Parental Influence

Author:Ivan Lendl

“When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.”

Ifs Thinking Parent Glad If I Could Take Me My Sister Rabbits Marvellous

Author:Maeve Binchy

“I had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.”

Years Parent Party Five Dad My Dad Noses Fake Hats Tails Halloween Pipe My Birthday Lashes Moustache Prosthetics Top Hats Halloween Party

Author:Bat for Lashes

“In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.”

Children Play Parent Roles Fundamentals Who You Are Perceive Tension Contradiction Angst Loathing Afghan Parent Child Parent Child Relationship

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.”

Jobs Parent Tough Much Love Tough Love

Author:Christie Brinkley

“My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.”

Culture Parent Taught My Family

Author:Alice Walker

“As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.”

“I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read Little House on the Prairie when he was in third grade.”

Thinking Knows Littles Different School Girl Reading House Causes Parent Boys Son Thirds Accounts Lists Grades My Son Boy And Girl Prairie Third Grade Like A Boy Little House On The Prairie

Author:Jon Scieszka

“I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.”

Thinking Happens Parent Interest Greater Special Mets Gun Sentiments Gun Control Hook Special Interests Sandy Sandy Hook

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.”

Art Real Wanted Parent Shame Metaphor Literal

Author:Amanda Palmer

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