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“Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their children there sense obscurely that they have failed in some fundamental way, like Muslims who never made it to Mecca.”

World Way Children Made Parent Air Fundamentals Made It Shrines Mecca

Book:America: A User's Guide

Source: America: A User's Guide

“In a world that is changing as rapidly as this one, we need to think differently about leadership. Leading is not done by those few in high places, but by parents and teachers and managers and those governing -- all working together to create the world that we want.”

Thinking World Want Needs Done Together Parent Teacher Managers Working Together Governing High Places Parents And Teachers

Book:Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success

Source: Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success

“I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.”

World Littles Enough Running Winning Parent Lucky Cups World Cup Skiing

Author:Mikaela Shiffrin

“No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.”

“I thought I was the center of the world and that my parents had nothing to do with me, and I regret that. I wish I had been a little kinder to my family and been friends with them and let them into my life and shared with them the things I was doing rather than feel like I needed to do my life in secret.”

World Feels Littles Wish Parent Secret Regret Needed My Family I Regret Kinder Center Of The World

Author:Jason Mraz

“The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down the street and so out and out and out and out into the world which becomes the home wherein charity begins until it becomes possible, in theory at least, to love the whole of creation with the same patience, affection, and amusement one first practiced, in between the pouts and tantrums, with parents, siblings, spouse, and children.”

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Author:Nancy Mairs

“The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.”

World Want Lasts Dies Parent Stage Let Me

Author:Emma Stone

“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

“Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case studies all over the world, Kristof and WuDunn present the clearest view I have ever seen of the human soul. A Path Appears tells us whether we are intrinsically good, why specific ways we parent our newborns help predict their chances for success, and how we can live lives of greater significance. This book, full of rich and riveting true stories, reminds us that human greatness is all around us, and even within us, if we dare to look.”

“By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and starving for the good parent, so it's like I'm bringing my own persona issues into that. I am the parent that I always wanted to have; that's how I look at my role.”

World Needs Looks Wanted Used Parent My Own Roles Issues Starving Persona Personal Experiences Default Good Parent

Author:Bob Harper

“No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.”

World Self Matter Hard Parent Identity Circumstances No Matter What Sense Of Self

Author:Anne Lamott

“The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on”

Source: Hilarity Ensues

“I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.”

Thinking World Kind Important Parent Gone Missing Translate Grandparent Stardom Great Grandparents Great Parents

Author:Yolanda Adams

“I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.”

World Firsts Children Parent First Time Asia Burma Southeast Asia

Author:Muhtar Kent

“I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut, from third world to inner city to my parents working their way out of being secretaries and janitors to professors and real-estate people. They've shown me a path of perseverance and hard work in a peaceable way.”

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Author:Kenna

“I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.”

Thinking World Children Art Country Whole Young Parent Whole World Martial Arts Young Children

Author:Jackie Chan

“My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.”

World Heart Values Parent Identity Brooklyn Old World Value Of Life Cultural Identity

Author:Woody Allen

“I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?”

Ifs World Believe Humans May Soul Body Faces Evil I Believe Process Parent Born Perfect Produce Monsters Eggs Genes Twisted Eden East Of Eden

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.”

“Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When the parents disconnect, the children have no base to move away from or return to. They aren't ready to face the world alone. With divorce, adolescents feel abandoned, and they are outraged at that abandonment. They are angry at both parents for letting them down. Often they feel that their parents broke the rules and so now they can too.”

World Feels Children Faces Moving Parent Behinds Ready Return Angry Divorce Broke Firm Abandoned Adolescence Abandonment Protective Outraged

Author:Mary Pipher

“Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The parents' job is to protect, the daughter's job is to explore.”

World Jobs Girl Grows Parent Goal Growing Up Protect Safe Daughter Adolescence

Author:Mary Pipher

“For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run the bath water or spread the peanut butter on the bread, proclaim proudly, "I'm making my contribution to the future of the planet." But with the exception of global hunger, few jobs in the world of paychecks and promotions compare in significance to the job of parent.”

World Hard Running Jobs Parent Water Planets Hunger Details Spread Bread Compare Contribution Exception Significance Parenthood Promotion Baths Mundane Peanuts Paychecks Peanut Butter

Author:Joyce Maynard

“In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions of parenthood, and which prevent the parent from doing things he wants to do as a guide, friend, and companion to his children.”

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Book:2 Wrlds Childhood

Source: 2 Wrlds Childhood

“The good enough parent, in addition to being convinced that whatever his child does, he does it because at that moment he is convinced this is the best he can do, will also ask himself: "What in the world would make me act as my child acts at this moment? And if I felt forced to act this way, what would make me feel better about it?”

Ifs World Way Feels Children Doe Enough Moments Asks Felt Parent Can Do Convinced My Children That Moment Good Enough Feel Better Make Me Feel Better

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.”

Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project

“The whole world is conscious. It's just that we become conscious at times, and you become conscious when you lose a parent, or just a loved one, period - a wife, a brother, you know. You wake up and say, "Man, it's real. I don't need this pimp gangster stuff anymore, I need something with a little more substance." And there is marketing for that.”

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Author:KRS-One

“Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.”

Thinking World Children Parent Term Focus

Author:Joanne Harris

“Let the world unfold without always attempting to figure it all out. Let relationships just be, since everything is going to stretch out in Divine order. Don't try so hard to make something work - simply allow. Don't always toil at trying to understand your mate, your children, your parents, your boss, or anyone else because the Tao is working at all times.”

Source: Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life (Easyread Large Edition)

“I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, "Children, you must no make so much noise," that I do not think how soon the time may come when, beside the vacant seat, those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them.”

Thinking World Giving May Children Parent Laughter Noise Seats Disturbed Vacant

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“We found ... that being a good parent to one's own child was never and in no way enough; until we were all responsible for all the children of the world, no child would ever be safe, no society could survive.”

World Way Children Enough Found Parent Safe Responsible Good Parent Being A Good Parent

Author:Eda LeShan

“My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.”

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Author:Edward Brooke

“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

“We must remember when we speak of the "negativism" of the toddler that this is also the child who is intoxicated with the discoveries of the second year, a joyful child who is firmly bound to his parents and his new-found world through ties of love. The so-called negativism is one of the aspects of this development, but under ordinary circumstances it does not become anarchy. It's a kind of declaration of independence, but there is no intention to unseat the government.”

“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.”

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Author:Vernon L. Smith

“Just stick with your kids. There's no set of rules on how to be a parent. No handbook. Just hang around your kids and ask them a lot of questions. You have to stay involved in your children's lives and monitor everything they're doing whether they like it or not. You're not in the job of making them like it. You're there to protect them in a world that can be troubling.”

World Children Kids Jobs Asks Parent Involved Protect Sticks Your Children

Author:Denzel Washington

“Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide her... Some have attempted to help her but most have simply tried to use her. Humans, who have been given the task to lovingly steer the world, instead plunder her with no consideration, other than their immediate needs. And they give little thought for their own children who will inherit their lack of love. So they use her and abuse her with little consideration and then when she shudders of blows her breath. They are offended and raise their fist at God.”

“I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was raised Catholic, and I admired how he used his faith.”

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Author:John Fugelsang

“I knew I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying to do stand-up. I think I actually tried writing jokes just at home, just kind of sitting around. But it seemed like a very real way to step into the world of comedy. I felt I could do it, so why not?”

Thinking World Way Writing Trying Kind Real Home Felt Parent Steps Comedy Jokes Sitting Notion Why Not Sitting Around

Author:Seth Rogen

“It's a crazy time right now with kids. They are so much, more savvy than even their parents are. They are handing down their devices to their parents. They are giving their parents the old iPad in exchange for the new one. It's a whole different world nowadays and they are in control and in charge of technology. It's scary but at the same time it's exciting. There are a lot of choices for them.”

World Giving Different Whole Kids Choices Parent Technology Crazy Right Now Exciting Scary Devices Different Worlds Ipads Savvy Crazy Times

Author:Tyra Banks

“Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their back on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.”

People World Young Parent Walking Frustrated Walking Away Disillusioned

Author:Myles Munroe

“To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.”

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Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.”

People World Firsts Reading Parent Nice Hundred My Friends My Family Independent Bookstores Signing Hometown Independent Bookstores

Author:Sarah Dessen

“The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.”

World Children Stills Ideas Would Be Left Grows Parent Growing Up Changed Gay Homosexual Gay Parents

Author:Andrew Solomon

“When I was young I was very close to my parents. I never liked staying at my mates' houses, I always wanted to be with my parents and then suddenly at 17 I was like, "Oh well, maybe I should just move half way around the world."”

World Way Should Wells Wanted Moving Young House Parent Half Around The World Staying Mates Oh Well Half Way

Author:Gregg Sulkin

“I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.”

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Author:Anne Waldman

“I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People coming in from abroad. There was a sense of community around ideas: a discourse and an adhesiveness which is my favorite word from [Walt] Whitman.”

People World Ideas Parent Community Connections My Favorite Greek Discourse Walt Favorite Words

Author:Anne Waldman

“My parents created a world in which the only barrier to your success is your own imagination.”

World Parent Imagination Barriers

Author:Shonda Rhimes

“I remember driving around with my parents when I was little and looking out of the window and being very aware that it was the shape of a film screen when you went to the cinema. This was how I first saw the world, framed through a car window.”

World Firsts Littles Remember Film Parent Saws Car Shapes Window Screens Driving Cinema Framed

Author:Rankin

“I wish we lived in a world where all kids were loved by their parents how I was and am every day.”

World Kids Wish Parent

Author:Lizzie Velasquez

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