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“I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.”

Thinking Children Important Seems Sports Parent Succeed Harder Our Children Your Children End Times Spend Time

Author:Dan Marino

“My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.”

Parent Class Middle Position Backgrounds Combination Odd Middle Class Privileged Working Class Upbringing

Author:Denise Mina

“My parents are always supportive of anything their kids do. They point out the pros and cons, but they let you make your own decisions, and when it's bad they stick by you.”

Kids Parent Decision Sticks Supportive Pros And Cons

Author:Eleanor Mondale

“I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.”

Mind Shows Kids Remember Parent Watches New York Grew Horror Grew Up Okay Annie Rocky Horror

Author:Gabriel Macht

“My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.”

Ifs Parent Brother Doctors Lawyer My Brother

Author:Gabriel Macht

“Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.”

Knows Kind Enough Might Parent Fortunate

Author:James MacArthur

“I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.”

People Thinking Want Parent Example Musician

Author:St. Vincent

“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”

Parent Liberty Security Distrust Caution

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.”

Littles Important Enough Able Wanted Parent Understanding Successful College Lucky Pursue Being Successful

Author:Allison Williams

“Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.”

Way Heart Children Grows Parent Watches Break Good Parent Being A Good Parent

Author:David Whyte

“I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.”

Ifs Mean Mother Father Parent Mets Southern Rome Virginia Georgia Migration Airmen

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have existed - it simply would not, because Berry Gordy, the founder of it, his parents had migrated from Georgia to Detroit where he founded Motown, and where did he get his talent?”

Certain Parent Talent Example Granted Founders Georgia Detroit Migration Berries Motown

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“From the time you are a tiny baby, a parent's love is usually unconditional. Whatever you do, your parents think you are the tops, but when their memory goes, you stop recouping the love you've put in.”

Thinking Parent Memories Love Is Love You Baby Tiny Unconditional

Author:Kevin Whately

“My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.”

People Way Children Art Facts Parent Careers Taught Raises Passionate Family Life

Author:Olivia Williams

“My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.”

Parent Mines Supportive Surrogates Supportive Parents

Author:Olivia Williams

“My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.”

Long Parent Tough Ideals Great Idea Happy Marriage

Author:Olivia Williams

“When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.”

Firsts Made Parent Albums Indication

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't want to be 'mumsy,' but I'm like, 'Were you always like that or... what happened?”

Knows Want Parent Happened

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.”

School Father Parent Growing Up Growing Mets Contemporary Professors Conductor Contemporary Music

Author:Sara Zarr

“My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.”

Parent Class Chosen Enjoyed Performers Dance Class

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“Being a parent is not just about how you treat your child; it's also about how you treat the other parent. If you treat that person with respect, that's fine, that's the way to go. But if you don't, you're not being the parent you could be.”

Ifs Way Children Persons Parent Fine Treats Our Children Your Children Being A Parent

Author:Art Alexakis

“Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.”

Men Stills Mother Father Parent Devoted Convincing Mother And Father Dissatisfied

Author:John Ralston Saul

“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.”

Way Firsts Children Form Turns Grows Parent White Cities Growing Up Imagine Generations Streets Gay Breathe Flight Highways Obsolete Suburbs Lawns Skylines

Author:Herbert Muschamp

“When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.”

People Thinking Way Trying War Country Parent Sides Grew Grew Up Brighter Wrong Way Brighter Side

Author:Andy Murray

“It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.”

Political Parent Constant

Author:Alexei Sayle

“Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To defend it is considered to be an obligation upon them. The strict punishment if found guilty of this crime under sharia, the Islamic law, is capital punishment implementable by an Islamic State. This is because the Messenger Muhammad said, ‘Whoever insults a Prophet, kill him.’”

“Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.”

Shows Parent Growing Up Growing Python Monty

Author:Mathew Baynton

“I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.”

Knows Years Reason Feelings Wanted School Remember Faces Mother Father Parent Security My Friends Classic Ashamed Typical

Author:Kurt Cobain

“I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.”

Should Littles Persons Ends Kids Fighting House Given Parent Tree Should Have Foundation Inevitable Sunday Afternoon Sunday Afternoons

Book:The Round House: A Novel

Source: The Round House: A Novel

“I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.”

Feels Home Kids Courses Parent Poor Teach Teacher Sorry Smarter Foolishness Qualified Schooling Misguided

Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

“I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.”

Years Children Christian Night Parent Worship Devil Glad One Night

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.”

Children Parent Issues Public Health

Author:Rand Paul

“The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.”

Children States Parent Our Children Your Children

Author:Rand Paul

“I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.”

People Thinking Knows Years Happens Kids Mother Father Parent Understanding Rights Separation Whatever Happens

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'”

Kind Would Be Kids Asks Parent Summer Ideals Things To Do

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.”

Years War Hard Parent Born

Author:Annie Lennox

“On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain.”

Source: Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files

“If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?”

Ifs Children Has Beens Helping Care School Parent Successful College High School Child Care

Author:Lamar Alexander

“You are loved. You are dear to your heavenly parents. The infinite and eternal Creator of light and life knows you! He is mindful of you. Yes, God loves you this very day and alwaysHe knows everything about you. He sees you clearly—He knows you as you really are. And He loves you—today and always!He loves you not only for who you are this very day but also for the person of glory and light you have the potential and the desire to become”

Knows Persons Light Today Desire Parent Love You Eternal Glory Infinite Who You Are Dear Creator God Love Heavenly God Loves You

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.”

Children Parent Capable

Book:Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth

Source: Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth

“Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.”

Parent Months Nine Being A Parent Nine Months

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.”

Needs Children Desire Parent Results Humility And Love Inclination Without Love Children And Love

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.”

Has Beens Hard Able Parent Rooms Watches Son Blessed Enlightened Locks

Author:A. Scott Berg

“We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.”

Firsts Children Parent Confession Salesman

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.”

Firsts Remember Parent Towns Length Hospitals Hospitality Mississippi Memphis Charleston

Author:Morgan Freeman

“We are more than we imagine ourselves to be. It's what we tell our children, our parents, our friends. But how often do we tell it to ourselves? And if we do, how often do we prove it? How often do we challenge ourselves to do something new?”

Ifs Children Parent Challenges Imagine Prove Our Children Something New Prove It

Author:Veronica Chambers

“I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.”

“One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.”

Children Parent Can Do Prayer Teach Our Children Meaningful Routine Most Meaningful Meaningful Things

Author:Tad R. Callister

“I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.”

Should Believe Children Parent Known Only Child

Author:Jane Smiley

“I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!”

World Writing Children Book Speak Parent Wonder Hundred Letters Get Over Children And Parents

Author:Enid Blyton

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