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“Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.”

Kids Parent Abundance Holiday Divorced Divorced Parents

“I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.”

Ifs Knows Believe Mean School Names Parent Havens Catholic Raised Believe In God Catholic School

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasnt very hip.”

Ifs Thinking House Parent Rocks Grew Grew Up Agree Bills Hips Rock N Roll Charlie Haley Groovy

Author:Elvis Costello

“I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.”

Ifs Knows Parent My Family British Heritage

Author:Chris Froome

“We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.”

Opportunity Parent Right Now Be Good Good Parent Good Opportunity

Author:Joe Nichols

“Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.”

Way Culture Parent Religious Worship Ethics Chinese Code Ancestor Confucianism Chinese Culture Code Of Ethics Ancestor Worship

Author:David Henry Hwang

“Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.”

Thinking Moments Bigs Parent Decision Experts Decision Making Routine Consistency Being There Good Parent Good Parenting

Author:Sebastian Coe

“How many ya'll parents smoke weed? My momma still grows illegal weed in Alabama.”

Stills Grows Parent Smoke Illegal Weed Alabama Momma Smoke Weed My Momma

Author:Yelawolf

“I dont know too many parents that want to feed their kids soda, but high-fructose corn syrup is cheap. The price of soda in 20 years has gone down 40 percent while the price of whole foods, fruits and vegetables, has gone up 40 percent and obesity goes up right along that curve.”

Knows Want Years Whole Kids Parent Gone Percent Fruit Vegetables Curves Corn Obesity Soda Fruits And Vegetables Syrup Whole Foods Corn Syrup

Author:Tom Colicchio

“Your parents are your projection-nothing more.”

Parent Projection

Author:Byron Katie

“I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.”

Children Care Form Dies Parent Answers Son Ordinary Our Children Take Care Your Children Homeless Schizophrenia

Author:James D. Watson

“In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.”

Felt Parent Brother Months Six Complaining Receiving Complaints Six Months February Ebay

Author:Pierre Omidyar

“When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.”

Source: Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage

“I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.”

Men Way Book Shows Parent Poor Magic Six Seven Tricks Show Business Poor Man Magic Tricks

Author:Steve Martin

“My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.”

Years Sometimes Play Hands Remember Parent Chance My Own Bridges Fascinated

Author:Louis Sachar

“The [character] that I was able to crawl into the most was Lilo from Lilo & Stitch. This was sort of a cartoony-looking girl, but her problems were completely real. Her funky world that she createdI mean, you know kids like that. It was very honest and genuine and I wanted to do an honest job, so I thought about the character a lot before I animated it. I really got into the character, where [I] almost felt that pain that she had. The loss of the parents - you need to feel all that. That was a big learning experience for me.”

Knows World Needs Feels Mean Real Character Problem Bigs Kids Able Wanted Pain Jobs Girl Felt Parent Loss Honest Genuine Animated Learning Experience Stitches Funky

Author:Andreas Deja

“People think living in your parents' basement until you're twenty-nine is lame. But what they don't realize is that while you're there, you save money on rent, food, and dates.”

People Thinking Parent Realizing Twenties Nine Saving Money Lame Basements

Book:Everything and a Kite

Source: Everything and a Kite

“Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case studies all over the world, Kristof and WuDunn present the clearest view I have ever seen of the human soul. A Path Appears tells us whether we are intrinsically good, why specific ways we parent our newborns help predict their chances for success, and how we can live lives of greater significance. This book, full of rich and riveting true stories, reminds us that human greatness is all around us, and even within us, if we dare to look.”

“If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and so preached, I got baptized and...' Are you saved? What are you saved from, hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from cheating? Are you saved from lying? Are you saved from bad manners? Are you saved from rebellion against your parents? Come on, what are you saved from?”

Ifs Lying Asks Parent Hell Saved Lust Manners Tonight Cheating Rebellion Bitterness Baptized Bad Manners

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.”

Matter Parent Patient Faster Terrified Ambulance

Author:John Green

“If we parents accept that problems are an essential part of life's challenges, rather than reacting to every problem as if something has gone wrong with the universe that's supposed to be perfect, we can demonstrate serenity and confidence in problem solving for our kids.By telling them that we know they have a problem and we know they can solve it, we can pass on a realistic attitude as well as empower our children with self-confidence and a sense of their own worth.”

“And also--to add to my problems--my parents and relatives kept telling me how they'd grown up feeling so close to the Almighty that they'd spoken to Him on a daily basis as one would speak to a friend and how, now and then, God had actually spoken back to them in the form of miracles.”

Feelings Problem Form Speak Parent Bases Miracle Add Now And Then Almighty

Author:Victor Villasenor

“No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.”

Found Parent Known Evolution Evidence Strongest Organisms Behalf

Author:Tom Bethell

“The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.”

Men Earth Values Given Parent Water Opinion Gold Contrary Useless Vain Best Things Abundance Folly Silver Scarcity All The Best Gold And Silver

Book:Utopia: On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia

Source: Utopia: On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia

“Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.”

Kids Grows Parent Attachment Syndromes Affectionate Down Syndrome

Author:Andrew Solomon

“Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one.”

“It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.”

Children Courses Literature Parent Traditional Children's Literature

Author:Anthony Horowitz

“Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.”

Knows Country Language Parent Prejudice Hardship Grandparent

Author:Hank Johnson

“We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time.”

People School Together Culture Parent Religious Race Streets Mass Catholic Absence Sunday Great Gifts Catholic School Derogatory Catholic Family

Author:Trina

“I registered Democrat because my parents did. They were, we were. There was no thinking behind it.”

Thinking Parent Behinds Democrat

Author:Susana Martinez

“If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.”

Ifs Sometimes Universe Stars Parent Understood Constant Fixed Spheres Sibling Celestial Dazzling Comets Scorching

Author:Alison Gopnik

“Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors.”

Firsts Country Parent Prepared Oppressors

Author:Jerry Rubin

“I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.”

Mother Father Parent Ability Money Spending Earning Spending Money Earning It

Book:Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

“Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.”

Running Age Wanted School Parent Education Heard Advice College Prison Manage Executives Retirement Orphan Discussing Corrections Asylums Retirement Age Alumni

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.”

Children Parent My Children Greatest Fear

Author:Derek Luke

“By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and starving for the good parent, so it's like I'm bringing my own persona issues into that. I am the parent that I always wanted to have; that's how I look at my role.”

World Needs Looks Wanted Used Parent My Own Roles Issues Starving Persona Personal Experiences Default Good Parent

Author:Bob Harper

“When we make jokes about being lazy, or things that look like we're lazy parents, we don't want to make it appear like we're not also incredibly hardworking people when it comes to striving at our vocational things. I do think it's a conversation, but a lot of times, you make sacrifices for the sake of jokes, or for the sake of a scene.”

People Thinking Want Looks Parent Sacrifice Scene Conversation Jokes Strive Sake Lazy Hardworking Being Lazy

Author:Lucas Neff

“There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's fine, that's wonderful. What I am against is labelling. Nobody ever labels a child a cricketer because his father is a cricketer, but they do label a child a Catholic because his parents are Catholic. I think it's more or less unique. Nobody ever labels a child a socialist or a conservative or a liberal because that's what their parents are.”

Thinking Children Values Father Parent Natural Wonderful Fine Unique Catholic Conservative Tendencies Labels Socialist Cricketers

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people”

People Ifs Years Littles Different Done Play Shows Remember Used Night Parent Class Groups Rocks Goes On Lows Mad Singers Educated Knees If I Could Saturday Saturday Night Disapproving

Author:Mick Jagger

“Like any parent, I just want the best for my kids, whatever they decide to do. They will choose what path they want to follow, and we will always be there to encourage them.”

Want Kids Parent Path

Author:David Beckham

“No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.”

World Self Matter Hard Parent Identity Circumstances No Matter What Sense Of Self

Author:Anne Lamott

“It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.”

Ifs Thinking Self Kids Parent Destructive Grandparent Self Destructive Manipulative

Author:Anne Lamott

“I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing. No health insurance, so if something happened I was screwed. I was lucky my parents had money and my brother was willing to support me for a long time. Once I started doing standup, I had an income, and that was amazing to me.”

Ifs Long Parent Support Happened Willing Brother Lucky Long Time Income Broke My Brother Support Me

Author:Lewis Black

“I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.”

Want Needs Firsts Parent Generations Percent Scientist Planes Atmosphere Fuel Efficient Airplane Engineers Mars Flew Scientists And Engineers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them.”

Kids Parent Adults Come Up Beaten

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When you become a parent you're endlessly obsessed with chatting to other moms and learning how they make it work - keep all the balls in the air if you like - because we all want to know how to be the best mom that we possibly can be.”

Ifs Knows Want Parent Know How Air Mom Balls Obsessed Being The Best Chatting Best Mom

Author:Tess Daly

“My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.”

People Young Parent Music Is

Author:Neil Diamond

“I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.”

Children Parent Discipline Say Anything Aunt

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against that. I think it's a great life, and yeah, you can lead them in that direction. I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it, they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.”

Thinking Want Kids Parent Pressure Yeah Athlete Grooming Professional Athlete

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.”

Thinking Want Kids Parent Achieve Pressure

Author:Wayne Gretzky

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