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“Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.”

“Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they would joke that I had a Roman nose - that it was roamin' all over my face. Teasing was their way of showing love, but then you are young, sometimes you can't tell the difference.”

Way Sometimes Faces Young Parent Differences Attention Growing Up Growing Jokes Noses Tease Showing Love

Author:Neil Strauss

“Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.”

People Ifs Needs Sometimes Government Would Be Parent Kicks Pants Perpetual

Author:Cal Thomas

“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

“I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people”

People Thinking Two Sometimes Grows Parent Talent Unions Singers Tone Deaf

Author:Joely Fisher

“Children who are brought up with one parent or another parent or shared parenthood, when there has been a divorce and hatred within families, it breeds a tremendous amount of instability in the life of a child. And many of these children end up in the homosexual movement. Even if they don't, they take so much baggage into their marriages, that they are unable sometimes, at least theoretically unable, to stand against all of the cultural forces that would disrupt them and their families.”

Ifs Children Has Beens Ends Sometimes Force Parent Movement Amount Hatred Divorce Parenthood Homosexual Baggage Instability

Author:Erwin W. Lutzer

“To each his own. It's one of those things. How you build your familyyou have to know what you're capable of handling and how your children will relate to each other. Maybe if you have one child and that child has a lot of needs, you realize you cannot give more attention to another. Sometimes you just know as a parent. We felt we could handle more children, and we have a very happy, very full home.”

Ifs Knows Needs Giving Children Sometimes Home Felt Parent Realizing Attention Capable Our Children Handle Relate Our Family Your Children Very Happy Need You

Author:Angelina Jolie

“We are all frustrated with computers, all the time... But we also always develop a relationship with computers these days - something my parents never had... there%u2018s always a kind of negotiation, sometimes you are in tune with it and other times you are fighting with it.”

Kind Sometimes Fighting Parent Technology Computer These Days Tunes Frustrated Negotiation

Author:Wade Guyton

“sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.”

Children Sometimes Parent Virtue Produce Opposites Faults Tendencies

Book:Works

Source: Works

“It's very hard to describe to people sometimes the way I grew up, because it wasn't like my parents were irresponsible. They weren't necessarily reckless, but they were bringing all types of energy into the house, all kinds of people.”

People Way Kind Sometimes Hard House Energy Parent Grew Type Grew Up All Kinds Reckless Irresponsible

Author:Courtney Love

“It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are.”

People Thinking Children Has Beens Ideas Sometimes Dream Beautiful Parent Imagination Flower Nostalgia Peculiar Denied Very Beautiful Fondness

Author:Angela Thirkell

“Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general.”

Way Stills Sometimes Problem School Parent Youth Authority Patient Subtle Rebel Covert

Author:Virgil Miller Newton

“Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to be the kind of asshole who writes books about them. Also because it was sometimes easier than finding a nanny.”

Writing Kind Book Sometimes Parent Growing Up Growing Childhood Easier Office Findings Therapy Multitudes Therapists Nannies

Book:I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

Source: I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

“My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.”

Persons Sometimes Mother Father Parent Church Neighbor Ministers Gentleman Terrific

Author:Jane Pauley

“Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.”

Men Sometimes Truth Parent Liberty Deserve Claims Treated Propositions Decency Variance

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: In thirteen volumes. ...

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: In thirteen volumes. ...

“You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.”

People Thinking Feels Mind Children Sometimes Young Girl Parent Influence Amount Lucky Scary Fortunate

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.”

Sometimes School Found Parent Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up High School Let Me Surprise Familiar Auditions Movie Sets

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.”

Years Sometimes Play Hands Remember Parent Chance My Own Bridges Fascinated

Author:Louis Sachar

“If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.”

Ifs Sometimes Universe Stars Parent Understood Constant Fixed Spheres Sibling Celestial Dazzling Comets Scorching

Author:Alison Gopnik

“Sometimes [people] say the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. In my case, I am pretty fortunate. [ My kids]'re pretty balanced, cool kids, going through pretty much the same thing all the other kids go through. There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do. I don't think they know a lot about what I do, other than that I am in this crazy band, Mötley Crüe.”

People Thinking Knows Sometimes Kids Fall Parent Can Do Cases Tree Crazy Band Unique Fortunate Apples Balanced Do The Best I Am Pretty Cool Kid

Author:Nikki Sixx

“I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.”

People Children Sometimes Parent Born Family Worry Too Much Tiny Confused Diamond Peas Pampering

Book:Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

Source: Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

“Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of the great "in spite of" that says: I forget although I remember. Without this kind of forgetting no human relationship can endure healthily. I don't refer to a solemn act of asking for and offering forgiveness. Such rituals as sometimes occur between parents and children, or friends, or man and wife, are often acts of moral arrogance on the one part and enforced humiliation on the other. But I speak of the lasting willingness to accept him who has hurt us.”

“Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it well whentheir grown children need to regress and repair. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can catch you when you start to fall. When you are in disgrace, defeat, and despair, home may be the safest place to hide.”

Needs Wells May Children Sometimes Home Mother Fall Father Parent Offers Kissing Despair Defeat Womb Disgrace Grown Children

Author:Frank Pittman

“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

“Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does he come running when you cry?”

Thinking Doe Sometimes Facts Running Parent Cry Creatures Behavior Reverse Helpless Infant

Author:Sandra Scarr

“Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them defensive.”

People Ifs Feels Children Sometimes Parent Criticism Criticize

Book:You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25

Source: You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25

“Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently. Sometimes these expectations run counter what is known about children's growth. They stem from remembering oneself, but usually at a slightly older age.”

Should Children Sometimes Running Age Remember Parent Growth Acting Known Conflict Expectations Oneself Stem Children And Parents Hub

Book:The Six Stages of Parenthood

Source: The Six Stages of Parenthood

“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.”

“Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.”

Sometimes Parent My Friends Familiarity Listen To Me Inattention

Author:Laurence Steinberg

“No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.”

Thinking Looks Children Sometimes Done Helping Parent Perfect Mistake Our Children Prepared Adulthood Learning From Our Mistakes

Author:Billy Graham

“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.”

“You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.”

Ifs Knows Way Children Sometimes Grows Parent Growing Up Growing Protected Nasty

Author:Ibn Warraq

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