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“Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.”

“My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.”

Two Age Wanted Moving Parent Born Baby Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Jew Israel Israeli Homeland Baghdad

Author:Elliott Yamin

“My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.”

Real Jobs Stuff Parent Rooms Careers Amount Paid Tennis Dishes Cleaning Real Jobs Small Amounts

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.”

Ifs Want Firsts I Can Play Helping Wanted Parent Goal Brother Mom Dad One Day Beats Ultimate My Dad My Mom My Brother Tennis Ultimate Goal

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.”

Children Parent Education Independent Educated

Author:Hyman Rickover

“Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.”

Mother Parent Bless God Bless

Author:William Herndon

“I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.”

People Parent Like Something

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.”

People Thinking Parent Findings Italian Knack Salespeople Italian American

Author:Bob Colacello

“Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far as I can remember, my parents have taught me to be really proud of my name.”

Should Long Said I Can Remember Names Parent Taught Proud Long Ago Emma

Author:Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

“I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.”

People Children Parent Class Rich Middle New York Television Grew Grew Up Raised Entertainment Middle Class Rich People Only Child

Author:Billy Eichner

“We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I had great homes. Both my parents remarried and I got more people to learn from!”

People Want Problem Home Parent Broken Obsession Broken Homes

Author:JJ Feild

“I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.”

Believe School Choices I Believe Parent Ought Public School School System School Choice

Author:William H. Gray III

“One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.”

Parent Misconception Smartphones Blackberries

Author:Thorsten Heins

“I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they grew up, I always find very interesting.”

Parent Interesting Grew Grew Up My Friends Raised Very Interesting

Author:Emily Bett Rickards

“Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.”

“I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.”

Ifs Kind Said Kids Wanted Asks House Parent My Own They Said

Author:Janet Jackson

“Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach – he was my mentor, my teacher, my second father. Coach was always there for me whenever I needed him and I loved him for it. In teaching me the game of basketball, he taught me about life. My heart goes out to Linnea and their kids. We've lost a great man who had an incredible impact on his players, his staff and the entire UNC family.”

Men Heart Kids Father Games Lost Parent Teacher Player Influence Teaching Taught Needed My Heart Basketball Bigger Impact Incredibles Coaches Great Men Mentor Staff Always There For Me Unc

Author:Michael Jordan

“Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.”

Children Littles Parent Too Much

Book:Two Worlds and Their Ways

Source: Two Worlds and Their Ways

“Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.”

Knows Self Order Parent Secret

Author:Ellen Sussman

“My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.”

Mean Doe Has Beens Important Hard Parent Knowing Share Hard Work Tomorrow Survived Greedy Dna Great Depression Extravagance

Author:David Suzuki

“The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.”

Hard Play Parent Can Do Knowing Hard Work Play Hard

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.”

World Feels Years Different Age Parent Boys Taxes Six Adults Mature Earning Pupils Earning Money

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“You can't bond with a male until you set your parents free.”

Parent Marriage Males

Author:Robert Mandel

“My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.”

Wanted Grows Parent Space Growing Up Horse Open Spaces

Author:Schuyler Fisk

“The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.”

Children Mother Father Parent Gratitude Our Children Bills Debt Grandparent Friday Mother And Father Happy Friday Debt Of Gratitude

Author:Nancy Friday

“When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.”

Writing Years Kind Parent Five Magic Casts Five Years Chests Spells Five Year Olds

Author:Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.”

Parent Fashion Industry Fashion Industry Gestalt

Author:David Lauren

“I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.”

Feels Stories Today School Remember Mother Father Parent Taken Taught Impact Hearing Ashamed Native Native American Grandparent Mother And Father Reservations Parents And Grandparents

Author:Chaske Spencer

“My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.”

World War Country Parent Born Dad Doctors Towns My Dad Jew War Of The Worlds My Sister World War Ii World War I Survived Ohio Auschwitz Czechoslovakia Dachau

Author:Julie Salamon

“My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you never learn.”

Ifs Want Parent Worst

Author:Toni Trucks

“I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.”

Should Kids Parent Roles Models Role Models

Author:Yul Vazquez

“Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them.”

Christian Values Parent Saws Dog Baby Concerned Sacred Ancient Contradiction Feeding Rabbits Potters Family Values Jung Boomers Baby Boomer Anthropomorphism

Author:Peter York

“Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.”

Children Book Used Lost Parent Interest Animal Class Generations Middle Late Available Video Middle Class Favourite Eighty Adorable Favourite Book

Author:Peter York

“I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.”

Thinking Giving Trying Two Wanted Girl Parent Born Boys

Author:Alex Borstein

“I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.”

Reality Parent Voice Musician Trade Singers Command Defined Inner Voice Prodigies Beyond Reality

Author:Black Francis

“In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.”

People Children Care Age America Parent Taken Grew Grew Up Towns Old Age Proximity

Author:Robert Benton

“Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.”

Kids Parent Rings

Author:Stephen Daldry

“I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it's difficult to top them. So what's the point?”

Thinking Parent Difficult Mines Rebellious

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'”

People Jobs Mother Parent Education Growing Up Growing Daughter India China Dinner My Daughter Starving Homework China And India World Is Flat

Author:Thomas Friedman

“My parents never really lecture me.”

Parent Lectures

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.”

Way Together Jobs Parent Five Normal Nine Family Life Normal Family

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.”

Art Wanted School Mother Parent Directors Locals Crafts Spite Engineers Attending Arts And Crafts

Author:Leon Jouhaux

“Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.”

Thinking Way I Can Parent Taught Fame Handle Thanks

Author:Alessandro Del Piero

“My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.”

World War Home Parent Mom Bills My Mom Thanks War Of The Worlds World War Ii Navy Loan Enlisted Gis

Book:That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

Source: That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

“I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.”

Two Mother Three Actors Parent Brother Doctors Thirds Chosen Older Brother Chosen One

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Children Kids Wanted Passion Fun Parent Acting Actresses Suits Making Money

Author:Alanna Ubach

“I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.”

Want Wanted Parent Support Prove Support Me

Author:Linda Vester

“I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.”

Knows Want Kids Parent Taken Who You Are Come Up Picture Taken

Author:Devon Werkheiser

“Some children do what they’re told to do; some children do what they’re told not to do; all children do what they’re parents have done.”

Children Done Parent

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.”

Action Mother Parent Results Discontent Brooding

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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