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“I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them.”

“I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.”

Should Believe Humans Mean Opportunity I Believe Parent Can Do Feminism Advantage Should Have Contradiction Entitled

Author:Anne Roiphe

“But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.”

Mean Made Culture Courses Individual Given Process Parent Quality Steps Groups Civilization Independent Division Cellular

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.”

Years Mean Government Parent Known Gone Army Department Great Depression Frugal

Author:Veronica Webb

“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

“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

“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

“And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.”

People Mean Kids Stuff Parent Audience Intention Grandparent Demographics

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.”

Mean Country Parent Amount Russia Best Things

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don't have to be perfect. That's the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.”

Giving Trying Mean Parent Walks Perfect Keys Faithful Being Faithful Trying To Be Perfect

Author:Terry Crews

“It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.”

Feels Mean Persons Different Bigs Able Moving Parent Authority Appreciate Mature Smarter Turning Points Points In Life

Author:Ryan Sheckler

“A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness.”

Mean Children Doe Whole Use Fall Parent Enjoy Share Brother Materials Anxiety Greed Ill Affection Illness Brothers And Sisters Parents Love Enticing

Book:Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria

Source: Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria

“A book , once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, both grammatically and actually, whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.”

Mean Children Book Individual Parent Cutting Reader Printed Publication

Book:The Works of James Branch Cabell: Towsend of Lichfield

Source: The Works of James Branch Cabell: Towsend of Lichfield

“I have a rule of thumb now and that's that somebody [she dates] has to have been married and they have to have had kids. Everything boils down to perspective. If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.... If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise ... [and] if they don't have children, they don't know the absolute self-sacrifice it takes and what it means to be a parent.”

Ifs Knows Mean Children Doe Has Beens Self Kids Lost Parent Sacrifice Perspective Married Absolutes Compromise Mates Thumbs Self Sacrifice

Author:Eva LaRue

“The path to a better future goes directly through our public schools. I have nothing against private schools, parochial schools and home schooling, and I think that parents with the means and inclination should choose whatever they believe is best for their children. But those choices cannot compete, and cannot come at the expense of what has been -- and what must always be -- the great equalizer in our society, a free and equal public education.”

“Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.”

World Way Mean Parent Share Becoming Adults Leaving Starting Peers Becoming An Adult

Book:The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

Source: The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

“I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.”

Ifs Knows Mean Country Dream Able Wanted Parent Lucky Broads

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“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

“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

“I don't pretend to any exemption from the general lot of parental delusion-I mean that like most other parents I see my child through an atmosphere which illuminates, magnifies, and at the same time refines the object to a degree that amounts to a delusion.”

Mean Children Parent Objects Amount Degrees Atmosphere My Children Delusion Parental Exemption

Book:Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge

Source: Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge

“One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.”

“What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.”

Thinking Knows Years Mean Together Mother Father Sex Parent Enjoy Saws Listening Daughter Notes Radio Afternoon Hints Upstairs High Notes

Author:Joy Behar

“I think that every day is a learning experience. I mean, every time I go to a school I learn something else from a teacher or learn something else from a student, I learn something else from a parent. There's so much to know when you talk about education.”

Thinking Knows Mean School Parent Teacher Students Learning Experience

Author:David Shuster

“Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.”

Needs Mean Children Two Parent Our Children Structure Two Things Consistency Counting

Author:Barbara Coloroso

“I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.”

Ifs Knows Believe Mean School Names Parent Havens Catholic Raised Believe In God Catholic School

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.”

Source: Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage

“The [character] that I was able to crawl into the most was Lilo from Lilo & Stitch. This was sort of a cartoony-looking girl, but her problems were completely real. Her funky world that she createdI mean, you know kids like that. It was very honest and genuine and I wanted to do an honest job, so I thought about the character a lot before I animated it. I really got into the character, where [I] almost felt that pain that she had. The loss of the parents - you need to feel all that. That was a big learning experience for me.”

Knows World Needs Feels Mean Real Character Problem Bigs Kids Able Wanted Pain Jobs Girl Felt Parent Loss Honest Genuine Animated Learning Experience Stitches Funky

Author:Andreas Deja

“If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.”

Ifs Mean Whole Happens Kids Parent Break Failing Partners Breaking Down Arena Sibling Disappoint Dysfunction Enchiladas

Author:Mary Karr

“The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually find ourselves in a situation in which we're forced to make difficult choices about our parents, other loved ones, or even ourselves that ultimately boil down to calculations of worth and value.”

People Mean Care Values Choices Parent Difficult Quality Situation Development Health Care Loved Ones Calculations Difficult Choices

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“There's a word like overprotective to describe some parents, but no word that means the opposite. What word do you use to describe parents who don't protect enough? Underprotective? Neglectful? Self-involved? Lame? All of the above.”

Mean Self Enough Use Parent Involved Protect Opposites Lame Overprotective

Book:The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder

Source: The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder

“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.”

“Some people have concerns about what it means to leave our responsibilities to robots. I think to some degree in every family, you've got siblings who disagree over the care for their parents.”

People Thinking Mean Care Parent Responsibility Degrees Concern Disagree Robots Sibling

Author:Jake Schreier

“Smooth sailing is what I hope for. No, I'm okay with no big ups, no big downs, it's all right. Just go full steam ahead, all things well and good, yeah. I mean as a family man, all you want is, as a dad, pure happiness for your kids, that's a universal parent thing. Yeah, that's it, that's my dream, happy kids.”

Men Want Wells Mean Dream Bigs Kids Parent Dad Pure All Things Okay Universal Yeah Smooth Sailing Steam Family Man Pure Happiness Happy Kid Smooth Sailing

Author:Johnny Depp

“I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover, this behavior eventually leads to resentment. There's always a hidden agenda of What's in it for me? It's often suppressed, and this is why sacrifice is ultimately unwise and incomplete. Does this mean that there's no such thing as altruism, philanthropy, or generosity? No, it just means that anytime these exist, so do egocentricity, misanthropy, and greed. There's always a balancing force, even if it's sometimes hidden or unconscious.”

“He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.”

Ifs Giving Should Mean Parent Justice Heard Greatness Son Arms Reputation Plato Eloquence Extraction

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.”

Trying Mean Force Parent Members Labor Manage Overwhelming Odds Unresponsive Labor Force Overwhelming Odds

Author:Sheila Kamerman

“Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.”

Men Mean Book Values Names Parent President Generations Honesty Son Proud Independence Blessed Fortune Leaving Instill History Books Being Blessed

Author:Grover Cleveland

“If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.”

Ifs Giving Believe Mean Children Character Past Purpose Parent Effort Moral Particular Skills Our Children Practicals Enthusiasm Our Future Our Past Inventiveness American Character

Author:Margaret Mead

“We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.”

Giving Mean Children Home Found Parent Car Citizens Accounts Bigger Towns Our Children Neighborhood Loyal Bank Accounts Loyal Friend Loving Parents

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.”

Mean Kids Parent Teaching

Author:Francis Chan

“More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.”

Thinking Way Mean Individual Parent Alive Listening

Book:Whole child, whole parent

Source: Whole child, whole parent

“When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth, so that's OK with me. If something true came out, I would have to check my circle to see who's talking and possibly make an apology phone call to my parents!”

People Ifs Knows Writing Mean Lying Parent Talking Phones Circles Checks Apology Phone Calls

Author:Eva Mendes

“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

“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 was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.”

Mean Play Used Certain Song Parent Records Events Huge Singing My Family Raised Pops Introduction Pop Music Quiz

Author:Eric Hutchinson

“You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different. The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you - you've killed them in a way. Is it destiny? Was it written somewhere that this was to be your life? Is it useful that you are here? Or is it simply by chance?”

Ifs Way Mean Children Made Different Moments Facts Would Be Life Is Parent Born Chance Destiny Written Because Of You

Author:Christian Boltanski

“God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sisters I grew up with, the schools I went to, there was this influence upon me which was the faith, in the concrete. I accepted it, I questioned it, I grew up with it, and in the end, as a mature adult, I continue to accept it.”

Mean Ends School Parent Accepting Influence Brother Grew Grew Up Adults Accepted Educated Mature Concrete Brothers And Sisters Miraculous

Author:George Coyne

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