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“For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.”

Feels Long Wanted Parent Community Long Time Wasting Time Cautious

Author:Lily Rabe

“Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me...”

Long Has Beens Ends Reason Mother Parent Difficult Interest Successful Nice Happened Lucky Prove Long Time The End Of The Day Mum Long Time Ago Prove Myself Your Mum

Author:Stuart Rose

“My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll stay together forever. That goes a long, long way.”

Way Long Kids Together Parent Forever Absolutes Secure Long Way Together Forever

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“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

“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

“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.”

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Author:Nick Moran

“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

“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

“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

“A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.”

Firsts Long Stills Moments Causes Parent Born Grief Fire Son Foolish Superiors Latter Long Life Blazing

Author:Chanakya

“My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.”

Mind Kind Long Said Young Parent Brother My Brother Young Love Wedding Day Our Wedding Long Love

Author:Padraic Colum

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.”

“When you're at your own parents' funeral, when you're at somebody that you love's funeral, you realize how precious life is. And you say, "As long as I can walk and I'm healthy, there's always tomorrow."”

Long I Can Life Is Parent Realizing Walks Tomorrow Healthy Funeral Precious Life How Precious Life Is

Author:Andrew Dice Clay

“I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health care for those who are served under Medicaid, that end our duty or violate our duty to our parents through Medicare. I just couldn't do that. As long as I'm president, I'll never let it happen.”

Children Long Ends Happens Care Parent President Environment Cutting Duty Taxes Our Children Health Care Guarantees Our Environment Medicare Tax Cuts Medicaid

Author:William J. Clinton

“A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else.”

Long Parent Nice Ashamed Uniforms Yankees Nice Things New York Yankees

Author:Jim Bouton

“As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has.”

Knows Want Kind Long Parent Materials Keep Going Earning Mike Sequels

Author:Jay Roach

“'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.”

Knows Way Long Care Wanted Young Felt Parent Missing Havens Dad Long Time Angry My Dad Bitter My Way Divorced Like Something

Author:Ellie Goulding

“Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.”

Mean Children Long Home Parent Challenges Risk Danger Abuse Politically Correct

Author:Michael Gove

“we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.”

Thinking Knows Long Done Parent Alive

Book:At Seventy: A Journal

Source: At Seventy: A Journal

“Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.”

Thinking Should Children Long Matter Shows Parent Hours Teacher Week Research Program Starting Engaged You Choose Therapists

Author:Temple Grandin

“Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.”

World Firsts Mean Long Has Beens Government Lasts Force Parent Views Mankind Policy Intention Endure Confusion Fraud Good Intentions Refined

Book:The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke

Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke

“someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.”

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor; nor ought that to be reputed ours, which was long before we had a being; for what advantage can it be to a blind man to know that his parents had good eyes? Does he see one whit the better?”

Knows Men Persons Long Doe Eye Parent Virtue Ought Honor Advantage Blind Ancestor Boast Ancestry Blind Man

Author:Pierre Charron

“Long before I was a success, my parents made me feel like I could be one.”

Feels Long Made Parent

Author:Toni Morrison

“My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.”

Ifs Long Faces Sports Parent Worry Long Time Boxes Long Time Ago

Author:Firoozeh Dumas

“I was playing video games LONG before I ever thought about playing football. If it wasn't for my parents making sure that I got outside every now and then as a child, I probably would've pursued some sort of tech path.”

Ifs Children Long Games Parent Path Football Video Now And Then Pursued Playing Football Playing Video Games

Author:Chris Kluwe

“The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or long-lasting.”

May Children Long Parent Love Is Lasting Long Lasting

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

“I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.”

Long Mother Parent Grew Dad Grew Up Distance My Dad Drivers Long Distance Birmingham Barbados Catering Lorry

Author:David Harewood

“It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.”

Long Parent Acting Company Careers Player Feet Land Stage India England Performing Courtesy Up And Down

Author:Felicity Kendal

“And if I may, call your mom, everybody. I've told this [to], like, a billion people, or so. Call your mom, call your dad. If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call 'em. Don't text. Don't email. Call them on the phone. Tell 'em you love 'em, and thank them, and listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you. Thank you. Thank you, Mom and Dad.”

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Author:J.K. Simmons

“Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool.”

“I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing. No health insurance, so if something happened I was screwed. I was lucky my parents had money and my brother was willing to support me for a long time. Once I started doing standup, I had an income, and that was amazing to me.”

Ifs Long Parent Support Happened Willing Brother Lucky Long Time Income Broke My Brother Support Me

Author:Lewis Black

“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.”

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Author:Richard Simmons

“Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.”

Long Moments Kids School Parent Welcome Holiday Family Holiday

Author:Jose Andres

“Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.”

Believe Long Age Young Parent Can Do Existence Long Time Losing Young Age Long Time Ago

Author:Jon Hamm

“The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?”

Children Long Problem Bigs School Process Parent Return Decent Big Problems Dumbing Down

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.”

“As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.”

People Way Long Two Past Young Father Sports Parent President Proud Healthy Committed Active Fitness Teens Council Chairman Way To Live Physical Fitness Active Life Proud Father

Author:Lee Haney

“It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.”

Knows Men Want Firsts Persons Long Doe Said Used Asks Parent New York Asking Used To Be Grandparent Boston Refined Philadelphia

Author:Cleveland Amory

“We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans, late sexual maturity, and a complex and extensive social existence... Our protracted biological and psychological helplessness, which extends well into the third year of life, intensifies the bond between infant and parents, making possible a sense of generational continuity. In contrast to other primates these bonds are not obliterated after sexual maturity.”

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way.”

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.”

Way Long Country Hard Parent Week Weekend

Author:Rodney Crowell

“I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said to me, "You've got to work at your career and you've got to be good at it. Okay, you've had a bit of success but that's not longevity. You've got to really work for a long time."”

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Author:Olivia Newton-John

“I engage with New York and America but my parents pretty much hang out in this radius of Long Island where their friends are and where their work is. That's why you have people who have lived in New York for like 20, 30 years who don't speak English. They just live in a Chinese community or an Indian community. More than anywhere you'll find that in Queens.”

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Author:Himanshu Suri

“Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.”

Long Enough Parent Family Fruit Selfishness Possessive

Book:The Owl Service

Source: The Owl Service

“the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.”

Giving Long Parent Land Food Birth Citizens Giving Up Loyalty Seats Attachment Patriotic Stomach American Citizens Hold Fast

Book:It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum

Source: It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum

“Despite the long-term reduction in familial roles and functions, we believe that parents are still the world's greatest experts about the needs of their own children. Virtually any private or public program that supports parents, effectively supports children. This principle of supporting family vitality seems to us preferable to any policy that would have the state provide children directly with what it thinks they need.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.”

World Years Long Hard Care Parent Hours Six Seven Witness Excitement Seven Years New Day Hard Life Long Hours

Author:Vernon L. Smith

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