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“I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Africa.”

World Should Believe Children School Certain I Believe Parent Millions Privilege

Author:George Weah

“My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.”

People Parent Successful Happy People

Author:Jack Wagner

“We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.”

People Way Different School Stuff Parent Black White High School Different Ways Grades Bizarre Mexican Grades In School All Black

Author:Jack White

“My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.”

Passion Parent Coaches Chess Allowing

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.”

Children Care Mother Parent Missing Score Woody

Author:Judy Woodruff

“I would definitely love to be a parent.”

Parent

Author:Kate Walsh

“No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.”

People Different Matter Jobs Parent Generations No Matter What Retired Different Life Different Jobs

Author:Kate Walsh

“I would say that my parents were supportive of me.”

Parent Economy Supportive

Author:Sanford I. Weill

“Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it.”

Trying Long Said Wanted Parent Enjoy Support Hardest They Said Skating Support Me Trying My Hardest

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“I was trying to be appreciative for the education I had, for the sacrifices my parents made. I was very interested in perfect attendance, OK, and straight A's and, you know, dean's list, because those I think were worthwhile, you know, endeavors. And it was important to spend my time in that way and become well-rounded.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Wells Made Important Parent Perfect Sacrifice Lists My Time Endeavor Worthwhile Dean Appreciative Well Rounded Attendance

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“America is among the countries the advance countries with the least equality of opportunity, which means that the - while I prospects of young American, a more dependent on the income and education's parents (ph) than another - other countries. So this notion of equal opportunity is sort of American dream is, is now a myth.”

Mean Country Dream America Young Opportunity Parent Equal Notion Myth Income Dependent American Dream Other Countries Prospects Equal Opportunity Equality Of Opportunity

Author:Jedediah Bila

“My parents, last time we went to Ikea, got into a huge fight, almost got divorced. My dad accidentally put his fist through the wood. I don't know what it was made of. Just going there it's like a maze. My mom makes me go. I get lost. It's very stressful.”

Knows Made Lasts Fighting Lost Parent Huge Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Woods Last Time Fists Divorced Stressful Mazes Ikea

Author:Jedediah Bila

“My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.”

Parent Workers

Author:Marco Rubio

“My parents were my worst audience.”

Parent Audience Worst

Author:Richard Lewis

“There is mental conditioning in your mind put in there during this life by your parents, teachers, the society. You've been told what is and what is not, what is right and what is wrong. This has to be pushed aside.”

Inspirational Mind Parent Teacher Buddhism This Life Conditioning

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.”

Years Children Sometimes Bits Parent Promise Disappointment Step Children

Book:A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

Source: A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

“Hope is the parent of Faith.”

Hope Parent Angel Hopeful

Author:C. A. Bartol

“It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.”

Men Lasts Time Jesus Names Lost Parent Loses Church Hardest Irony Ministry Christian Ministry

Author:Vance Havner

“God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."”

Children Said Christian Jesus Parent Secret Wise Missing Like You Our Children Christian Inspirational Your Children Babe Prudent

Author:Vance Havner

“The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.”

Source: Killosophy

“If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.”

“When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.”

World Reading Parent Tvs Sick Praise Links Bugs Outside World Watching Tv

Author:Lance Loud

“The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.”

Stories America Parent One Day Singing Standing Spokes Bless Bedroom God Bless God Bless America

Author:Linda Lavin

“Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.”

May Children Lasts Young Parent Decision Support Week Policy Immigration Enthusiasm Immigrants Voters Hispanic Immigration Policy

Author:Mara Liasson

“Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.”

Ifs Would Be Felt Parent Teach Decided Eras Chinese Better Off Complication

Author:Maya Lin

“My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.”

States America Opportunity Belief Parent United United States Heard Land Pockets Land Of Opportunity

Author:Mia Love

“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

Ifs World Hard Would Be Kids Wanted School Jobs America Felt Parent Chance Class Careers Growing Up Growing Middle Middle Class Good School

Author:Al Franken

“Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.”

Children Parent Violence Victim Ill Mentally Ill

Author:Rich Lowry

“My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.”

School Parent Careers Dad High School My Dad Graduates Lots Of Money Printing Salesman Working Life Graduating High School

Author:Al Franken

“My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.”

Important Home Political Night Parent News Dinner Every Night

Author:Al Franken

“I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.”

People Thinking Writing May Song Parent Sad Song

Author:Shelby Lynne

“I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.”

Individual Parent Stress

Author:Shelby Lynne

“My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.”

Parent Humble

Author:Taylor Lautner

“The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.”

Long Different Together Nations Parent Common Vision Lifetime Bounds Grandparent Different Peoples

Author:Trent Lott

“My parents have always been very open.”

Parent

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.”

People Way Want Children Character Parent Roles Written Fields South Entertainment Asian Lament

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.”

Littles Kids Parent Raises Accountability

Author:Ben Marcus

“My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.”

Parent Example Balance Family Life

Author:Ben Marcus

“I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.”

Way Children Ends Dies Parent Hostility Plausible Parent Child Parent Child Relationship

Author:Ben Marcus

“At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.”

Able Wanted Parent Acting Moved Keep Going Looking Pretty

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.”

Ifs Want Ideas Enough Parent Teach Study Devoted

Author:Brit Marling

“For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Long Kids Age Fighting Felt Parent Prove Long Time Adults Treated Peers Cocky Savvy

Author:Ezra Miller

“I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.”

Firsts Long Has Beens Jobs Hate Parent Known Teacher College Worried Assumption Ems Rest Of Your Life

Author:Jack McBrayer

“I've run out of mates that haven't had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I've been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.”

Thinking Feels Littles Long Doe Facts Running Able Young Bits Parent Havens Baby Little Bit Selfish Mates

Author:Nick Moran

“Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.”

Parent Exercise Calmer

Author:Poppy Montgomery

“I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.”

Ifs Way Asks Parent Too Much Ask Me Just Do It

Author:RJ Mitte

“I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents.”

Long Parent Week Long Time Fishing Texas Hunting Uncles Grandparent Time Away Hunting And Fishing

Author:RJ Mitte

“When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.”

Children Parent Fewer Health And Education

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.”

Years Littles Two Kids Parent Sound Dog Average Income Household Fence New Orleans Working Parents

Author:Anthony Mackie

“The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!”

Years Problem Bigs Kids Night Parent Morning Growing Up Growing Cooking Cafes Days Of The Year Menagerie

Author:Anthony Minghella

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