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“It's a mistake to just go make a movie where the whole thing is talking down to the kids like, "Ok, we gotta bring the IQ of this movie down because it's a kids movie" You don't have to do that, kids can laugh and parents can laugh at different parts and that's fun, and you see that with all of the great kids movies.”

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Author:Jack Black

“I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.”

Moments Home Eye Wanted School Remember Given Parent Watches Growing Up Growing Daughter My Daughter That Moment Single Parent

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.”

Thinking Children Parent Disappear

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom was like, "Put that thing off and put my damn record on". So from old school to '90s to recent, it's just always been there.”

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Author:Solange Knowles

“I have never lied to the people. I have always told them to love themselves, to move their body, and to watch their portions. I never jumped on any other bandwagons for stupid diets or shots or pills or anything. I'm very worried about our young people. And we need to take care of them, or they're not going to live as long as their parents. And this is really something very important to me.”

People Needs Long Important Body Care Moving Young Parent Watches Stupid Shots Take Care Worried Diets Portions Pills Lied Never Lie Bandwagon

Author:Richard Simmons

“One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings, horrible; lynching death, all of that, horrible. But the living life of a parent who, A, has no control over what happens to your children, none. They don't belong to you. You may not even nurse them. They may be shipped off somewhere, as in "Beloved" the mother was, to be nursed by somebody who was not able to work in the fields and was a wet nurse.”

May Children Country Happens Able Mother Parent Fields Labor Our Children Slavery Horrible Live Life Beloved Your Children Breakup Nurse Wet Monstrous Lynching

Author:Toni Morrison

“Student loan debt is crushing young people. And so they're not doing the things we would expect them to do. They're not moving out of their parents' homes in as big a numbers, they're not saving up money for down payments, they're not buying homes or cars or starting small businesses or doing any of the things that help move this economy forward.”

“I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven't done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.”

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Author:Denzel Washington

“When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.”

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Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.”

Thinking Needs Should Hate Parent Mystery Rocks Safe Elements Meant To Be Intrigue Rock Music

Author:Trent Reznor

“You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.”

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Author:Brandi Carlile

“Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.”

Use Certain Parent Attitude Limits Goodness Behavior Obedience Use Of Power

Book:Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?

Source: Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?

“If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.”

Ifs Mean Whole Happens Kids Parent Break Failing Partners Breaking Down Arena Sibling Disappoint Dysfunction Enchiladas

Author:Mary Karr

“Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.”

Way Parent Possibility Losing Adrift

Author:Walter Mosley

“We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.”

Thinking Trying Children Home Parent Modern Broken Complicated Divorce Myth Invention Greek Divorced Widows True You Greek Myth Broken Homes New Parents Stepchild Stepchildren

Author:Rick Riordan

“I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.”

Believe Ideas Facts Parent Adventure Passionate Not Sure Experts Engaged Imperfect Daring Traveler Researchers Stumbling

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead

“It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.”

Parent Coincidence Kent

Author:Scott McClellan

“If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.”

People Ifs Thinking Country Problem School Asks Parent Attention Students Customers Pay Attention Employers

Author:Steve Jobs

“One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their parents are. They know their parents have these old views.”

People Knows Way Young Parent Views Clear One Thing Castes Tripping

Author:Katherine Boo

“I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.”

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Author:Ally Condie

“I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.”

Moments Shows Would Be Jobs Actors Parent Comic Host Defining Gigs Talk Shows Single Parent Defining Moments Being A Single Parent

Author:Arsenio Hall

“I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA.”

Shows Parent Animal Support Pride Lovers Cat Fellows Designer Sweaters Animal Love Kitties Animal Lover Cat Lover Aspca

Author:Kellie Pickler

“When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.”

Years Done Moments Wanted Parent Class Trouble Sea Feet Association Shells Sailing Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Sea Shell Dinghies

Author:David Crosby

“People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.”

People Found Parent Cities Cases Growing Up Growing Dog New York Assuming New York City

Author:Jill Abramson

“In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.”

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Author:Dominique Moceanu

“My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.”

Years Running Three Parent Class Three Years Gymnastics Playgrounds Three Year Olds

Author:Dominique Moceanu

“When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'”

Real Jobs Young Asks Parent Entrepreneur Starting Fashionable Starting Out Real Jobs Young Entrepreneurs

Author:Kevin Harrington

“The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!”

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Author:Dante Hall

“Im from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.”

Stills Together Fun Parent Childhood Mom Dad Army My Dad My Mom Navy Carefree Brat Connecticut Army Brat

Author:Cassie Ventura

“I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.”

Thinking Giving Parent Alive

Author:T-Pain

“Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.”

Way Feels Children Reading Parent Voice Corners Smell Teeth Ease Ritual Elsewhere Toys Blanket Glowing Bedtime Slumber Pajamas Brushing

Book:Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays

Source: Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays

“I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what its like to lose a beloved parent.”

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Author:Simone Elkeles

“Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.”

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Author:Karen DeCrow

“Could we betray our parents by going back to them?”

Parent Betray

Author:Karen Russell

“I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.”

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Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt

“I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.”

Thinking Knows Kind Culture Parent Institutions

Author:Margaret Spellings

“Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural, and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between child and parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.”

Men Children Has Beens Made Home Spiritual Parent Natural Prayer Simple Asking Constant Convinced Heavenly Spiritual Life Receiving Intercourse Children And Parents

Book:How I Know God Answers Prayer

Source: How I Know God Answers Prayer

“When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.”

Choices Three Parent Middle Doctors Lawyer Immigrants Engineers Eastern

Author:Michael Mina

“My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.”

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Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on”

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“Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.”

Kids Parent

Author:Ken Livingstone

“My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.”

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Author:Francisco Costa

“My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.”

Has Beens Said Parent My Friends

Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, This is how youre supposed to do it. And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, Heres the good stuff in life. How do you get there?”

People Thinking Kind Said Hands Stuff Parent Blueprints

Author:Rich Mullins

“I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.”

Thinking Knows Wanted Parent One Thing Approach Smart Who I Am Progressive Tick Really Smart

Author:Rich Mullins

“I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.”

Knows Humans Parent Human Beings Raised Admire

Author:Missy Peregrym

“My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.”

Parent Crosses Foreheads

Author:Vincent Nichols

“I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.”

Years Parent Adventure Ten Summer Staying Spain Arizona Family Friends Oregon Portland Portland Oregon

Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden

“My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.”

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Author:Mona Simpson

“I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.”

Thinking World Kind Important Parent Gone Missing Translate Grandparent Stardom Great Grandparents Great Parents

Author:Yolanda Adams

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