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“A sense of self has to be sought in the parade of images and products; and this culture becomes the main determinant upon morality, beliefs, and purpose, usurping more and more territory that formerly belonged to parents, teachers, community, priests, and politics alike.”

Self Purpose Culture Belief Parent Community Teacher Products Morality Priests Territory Consumerism Sense Of Self Parades Overconsumption

Book:What Went Wrong?: Why Hasn't Having More Made People Happier?

Source: What Went Wrong?: Why Hasn't Having More Made People Happier?

“I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew up feeling very comfortable around books. Also, Ireland is a country which has honoured its writers and poets, so when someone says they wanted to be a writer, its not mocked or looked down upon.”

Book Country Feelings Home Wanted Parent Taken Saws Poet Grew Comfortable Grew Up Library Ireland Bookshops Writers And Poets

Author:Michael Scott

“Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their back on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.”

People World Young Parent Walking Frustrated Walking Away Disillusioned

Author:Myles Munroe

“There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of themselves as liberal and removed from barbarity, but it also was the era of Vietnam. I very much was influenced - and I think the whole country was kind of in a state of shock - for the first time seeing the horror and cruelty of war.”

Thinking Firsts Kind War Country States Whole Kids Parent Seeing Generations Hero Horror First Time Cruelty Symbols Eras Shock Vietnam Barbarity

Author:Wes Craven

“Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.”

Ifs Want Government Young House Parent Proud Computer Outsiders Hackers Insiders Delinquents Shutting Down

Author:John Waters

“I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.”

Knows Home School Parent Normal High School Things To Do Riding God Knows Normal Things Perfectly Normal

Author:John Waters

“Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.”

Ifs Years Parent Blame Angry Idiot Old You

Author:John Waters

“If you're a parent, I tell you how to get through Christmas. I think that if you've ever had a bad feeling about Christmas coming, I'll tell you how to deal with it. So, I think in a way it's like going to a sane psychiatrist that actually gives you some good advice, I hope!”

Ifs Thinking Way Giving Feelings Parent Deals Advice Sane Psychiatrist Good Advice

Author:John Waters

“If you can imagine the area and the land in Cambodia, I mean there are hardly any roads in big parts of the country. The roads they have, in the rainy season, become just mud. So, if you’re somebody that has just one leg, or blind with no arms and you have children and you’re trying to work, and earn some money, and take care of your home, it’s hard enough to be a parent and do all of that normally.”

Ifs Trying Mean Children Country Hard Enough Home Bigs Care Parent Imagine Land Arms Areas Seasons Blind Legs Take Care Just One Mud Rainy Cambodia Rainy Season

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid. Of course, when a chaplain shows up, that can exacerbate this worry rather than calm it.”

Thinking Shows Kids Courses Parent Religious Numbers Worry One Thing Calm Worried Chaplains

Author:John Green

“Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.”

Made Character Found Father Parent Interesting Novel Becoming Becoming A Father

Author:John Green

“I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.”

Ifs Thinking Littles School Parent High School Backgrounds Fades Good Parent Great Parents

Author:John Green

“The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.”

Children Persons Long Stills Parent Love Is Alive Stronger Children And Parents

Author:John Green

“I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.”

Parent White Saws College Grew Grew Up Areas Like Me Confusion

Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood

“Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves.”

Kids Parent Break Hero Attractive Taboo Flocks

Author:Johnny Carson

“I get sick of that old rationalization, "We're staying together because of the children." Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents who can't stand each other. They're far better off if there's an honest, clean divorce.”

Ifs Children Kids Together Parent Honest Sick Clean Divorce Miserable Staying Better Off Staying Together

Author:Johnny Carson

“My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.”

Years Three Parent Born Grew Grew Up My Sister Three Years Adopted Korean

Author:Katherine Heigl

“I've always been a horror fan! Ever since I can vastly remember, and I think it's because I was so terrified of monsters and ghosts as a kid that I had to sleep in front of my parents room until I was 12.”

Thinking I Can Kids Remember Parent Sleep Rooms Fans Fronts Horror Monsters Ghost Terrified Horror Fans

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler

“True love in Mexico isn't between lovers; it's between a parent and a child. Mexico is a very intense culture of sons adoring their mothers, and this is why I claim that Mexican culture is matriarchal. Because the one constant, faithful, inviolable, holy love of loves - the love of your life - is not your wife or your lover; it's your mother.”

Children Life Is Mother Culture Parent Wife Son Lovers Holy Claims Constant Intense Faithful Mexico Mexican Love Your Life Mexican Culture

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.”

Art Kids Able Parent Creative Mom Dad My Mom Just Being Mom And Dad Creative Art Cool Things

Author:Brooklyn Sudano

“When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.”

People Knows Want Able Certain Parent Clouded

Author:Brooklyn Sudano

“Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well.”

Wells Kind Parent Taught Grateful Everyday Be Kind Be Grateful Saying Thank You

Author:Nicole Richie

“We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.”

Parent Nice Cards Supposed To Be Civilized Being Nice Christmas Card

Author:Maurice Sendak

“Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.”

Kids Parent Unheard

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.”

Children Dies Parent Immigrants Discreet

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I was raised Jewish by atheistic-agnostic parents. During this journey, I had people from all walks and all faiths try to help. A Jewish priest who I was friends with wanted to lay hands on me - I didn't ask questions about how - I just said when and where and how often do you want to do it? I didn't argue.”

People Want Trying Said Helping Hands Wanted Asks Parent Walks Journey Lays Raised Arguing Priests Agnostic Atheistic

Author:Mark Nepo

“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.”

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”

“Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.”

Made Matter Parent Women Cease Arrangements

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.”

Real Character Parent Property Educational Facility Transmit Real Property

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.”

Firsts Children Parent Duty Claims Obedience Contempt Wretched

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.”

People Way Doe Hard Eye Parent Boys Hard Work News Radio Arguing Lakes Polish Lake Wobegon

Author:Garrison Keillor

“My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music.”

Mother Father Parent Records Piano Being Played

Author:Lauryn Hill

“But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.”

Wells Children War Parent Influence Paid Favors Liberated Pernicious Yossarian Catch 22 Important

Book:Catch-22: A Novel

Source: Catch-22: A Novel

“I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I not only survived all this but I have thrived. I've always been psychologically ambitious in that I've never been willing to settle emotionally for anything less then what's needed. I've wanted more then that from life.”

Wanted Parent Willing Needed Overcoming Abuse Settling Loved Ones Ambitious Death Of A Loved One Survived Bad Parent

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.”

Has Beens Important Fighting Parent My Own Lessons Battle Grateful I've Learned Stumbling Important Lessons

Author:Anna Quindlen

“We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood...who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened!”

Thinking Kids House Left Parent Happened Crazy Childhood Figures College Adulthood Great Family Great Parents

Author:Andy Andrews

“The biggest mistakes most parents make (and believe me, I'm guilty of these too) seem very inconsequential. They're little, day-to-day things that, at the moment, don't seem like a big deal.”

Believe Littles Moments Bigs Seems Parent Deals Mistake Guilty Believe In Me Day To Day Big Deal Biggest Mistake Inconsequential

Author:Andy Andrews

“We're not trying to raise good kids. We're trying to raise kids who become great adults. That's a very different thing. We all know parents who had kids that when they turned 18 left the house and went nuts.”

Knows Trying Different Kids House Left Parent Adults Raises Different Things Nuts

Author:Andy Andrews

“There's only one way kids will wear helmets, and that's if their parents are nagging them to. They will never wear helmets because some state passes a law requiring it.”

Ifs Way States Kids Law Parent One Way Helmet Nagging

Author:Dave Barry

“I know that all over America there's probably politicians sending out pictures of themselves signing that mandatory helmet bill, but it's bullshit. I say that as a parent.”

Knows America Parent Politician Bills Bullshit Signing Helmet

Author:Dave Barry

“Any parent that relies on any law to help him parent is an idiot.”

Helping Law Parent Idiot Rely

Author:Dave Barry

“God bless the popcorn film. Especially movies where you can take the kids, because I remember looking forward to seeing these movies with my parents, and if I can give that back, I'm gonna do it.”

Ifs Giving I Can Kids Remember Film Parent Seeing Bless Looking Forward God Bless Popcorn

Author:Nicolas Cage

“It's up to the parents to watch their kids and make sure their kids aren't doing any crazy drugs. I always blame the parents. When their kids are doing something crazy, I blame the parents.”

Kids Parent Watches Crazy Drug Blame

Author:Juicy J

“My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through my mom and dad I learned about love, family and respecting people. They never went to high school but they had within them every element that makes a great American. They had pride and a great work ethic and they knew how to do things the right way.”

“My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.”

Heart Long Hard Wanted Parent Decision Roles Break Hero Models Role Models Disappoint My Hero

Author:Dick Vitale

“To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.”

World Children School Values Parent Church My Own Catholic Safety Institutions Decent Have Faith Catholic School Good In The World

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.”

Mean Running Grows Parent Growing Up Like You Okay Scary Slow Down Slowing Running Out Of Time

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.”

Years Names Stuff Parent Ancestor Bothered Cobain

Author:Kurt Cobain

“My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.”

People World Firsts Reading Parent Nice Hundred My Friends My Family Independent Bookstores Signing Hometown Independent Bookstores

Author:Sarah Dessen

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