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“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

“If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.”

“Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.”

Ifs Would Be Felt Parent Teach Decided Eras Chinese Better Off Complication

Author:Maya Lin

“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

Ifs World Hard Would Be Kids Wanted School Jobs America Felt Parent Chance Class Careers Growing Up Growing Middle Middle Class Good School

Author:Al Franken

“I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'”

Kind Would Be Kids Asks Parent Summer Ideals Things To Do

Author:Dwyane Wade

“Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.”

Ifs Life Light Would Be Life Is Parent Shadow Parenting Being A Parent Light And Shadow Insincere Disney Company Triumph Over Evil

Book:Walt Disney: Conversations

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.”

Ifs Men Would Be Parent Race Watches Power Fate Childhood Minutes Objects Authority Absolutes Contrary Oppression Secure Perpetual Immense Manhood Gratification

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“In principle the first thing on the stream would be my birth certificate, a little electronic version of that, my parents would put my school records, health records, whatever of their child onto the stream. And the stream continues to flow forward through time.”

Firsts Children Littles Would Be School Parent Principles Records Birth Flow Versions Streams Rough Times Certificates Birth Certificate

Author:David Gelernter

“When I'm writing for a book, it's much more reflective process. I have certain things that may not translate well to the stage, but, when they're on the page, people can really get into them. My first two books were aiming to be funnier, but the third was more about deep exploration. Things about being a parent and growing older that I thought would be perfect for a book.”

People Writing Firsts Wells May Two Book Would Be Certain Process Parent Perfect Growing Stage Pages Thirds Exploration Translate Growing Old Being A Parent Growing Older

Author:Paul Reiser

“It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest requests at times! Often we are grieved by the meanness and selfishness in their requests, but we would be all the more grieved if they never came to us even with their meanness and selfishness. We are simply glad that they do come--mixed motives and all.”

Ifs Children Littles Would Be Jesus Parent Prayer Our Children Glad Selfishness Motive Request Meanness Craziest

Book:Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home

Source: Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home

“The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.”

Firsts Enough Problem Would Be Parent Sides Bears Bed Demand Mountain Solutions Stones Casts Miles Agents Valleys Rip Disruptive

Book:The Cause of an Ice Age

Source: The Cause of an Ice Age

“Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.”

“Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.”

People Ifs World Want Needs Children Ideas Facts Would Be Felt Parent Wonderful Resources Tolerance Shrinking

Author:Erica Jong

“When I was kid, yeah, my family, my parents wanted me to marry a Jewish girl because that was what they taught their children, and thought it would be an easier life for me to raise a Jewish kid. And I have a Jewish wife, I have a Jewish kid. They seem pretty happy about it.”

Children Seems Would Be Kids Wanted Girl Parent Wife Taught Easier My Family Raises Yeah Easier Life

Author:Adam Sandler

“I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've had those my entire life. It's something that was just instilled in me by my parents.”

Firsts Would Be Parent Careers Standards Ambitious

Author:Mindy Kaling

“The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.”

Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

“If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.”

Ifs Children Would Be Parent

Book:Two Worlds and Their Ways

Source: Two Worlds and Their Ways

“I am the youngest of four siblings, and were all so close. I dont know where I would be without my brothers and sister. I secretly believe that my parents love me the most!”

Knows Believe Would Be Parent Four Brother My Brother Brothers And Sisters Sibling Parents Love

Author:Marissa Jaret Winokur

“My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.”

Giving Would Be Fighting Left Parent Difficult My Own Childhood Battle Disease Giving Up Warrior Substitutes Stable Stoic

Author:Joni Mitchell

“I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.”

Would Be Wanted School Stuff Parent Share Worst Stupid Healthy High School Fairs Worst Things Disappoint Fair Share Healthy Fear

Author:Christine Lakin

“I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.”

Moments Shows Would Be Jobs Actors Parent Comic Host Defining Gigs Talk Shows Single Parent Defining Moments Being A Single Parent

Author:Arsenio Hall

“The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to solveyour problems for you or the dreaded ability to make you turn back into a child. When you are no longer hiding from your parents, or clinging to them, and can accept them as fellow human beings, then they may do the same for you.”

Giving Humans May Children Problem Would Be Turns Parent Human Beings Ability Accepting Growing Up Giving Up Adults Fellows Hiding Clinging Childlike Parental Lingering

Author:Frank Pittman

“Parents vary in their sense of what would be suitable repayment for creating, sustaining, and tolerating you all those years, andwhat circumstances would be drastic enough for presenting the voucher. Obviously there is no repayment that would be sufficient . . . but the effort to call in the debt of life is too outrageous to be treated as anything other than a joke.”

Years Enough Would Be Life Is Parent Effort Circumstances Creating Jokes Debt Treated Sufficient Vary Outrageous Suitable Presenting Sustaining Drastic Vouchers Repayment

Author:Frank Pittman

“If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.”

“A two-year-old can be taught to curb his aggressions completely if the parents employ strong enough methods, but the achievement of such control at an early age may be bought at a price which few parents today would be willing to pay. The slow education for control demands much more parental time and patience at the beginning, but the child who learns control in this way will be the child who acquires healthy self-discipline later.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“It would be a fine thing if ... parents would have in every bedroom in their house a picture of the temple so [their children] from the time [they are] infant[s] could look at the picture every day [until] it becomes a part of [their lives]. When [they reach] the age that [they need] to make [the] very important decision [concerning going to the temple], it will have already been made.”

Ifs Needs Looks Children Made Important Would Be Age House Parent Decision Fine Temples Bedroom Infant Important Decisions Fine Things

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!" our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out the front door, weighed down by hundreds of pounds of concealed vandalism supplies, including enough raw eggs to feed Somalia for decades. By morning, thanks to our efforts, the entire neighborhood would be covered with a layer of congealed shaving cream and toilet paper that, around certain unpopular neighbors' homes, was hundreds of feet thick. This is how the Appalachian Mountains were formed.”

“Parents don't get that, though. They don't understand about the fragility of teen friendships. They don't understand how easy it is for things to break apart, how someone you thought would be by your side forever can just disappear, or turn on you, or decide she likes someone more than she likes you. Parents always talk about romantic relationships being so ephemeral and fleeting in high school. What they don't get is that friendships can be the same way.”

Way Would Be School Turns Easy Parent Sides Break Forever High School Disappear Likes Fleeting Turn-on Your Side Ephemeral Fragility Romantic Relationship

Book:The Thing About the Truth

Source: The Thing About the Truth

“I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.”

Years Made Home Would Be Wanted Asks Fun Parent Lessons Band My Friends Instruments Piano Never Quit Piano Lesson Playing Piano

Author:Andrew Hollander

“I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.”

Stills Different Would Be Life Is Parent Sweet Grew Normal Married Grew Up Normal Family

Author:Gwen Stefani

“I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"”

“After I graduated from high school, one of the former workers on our farm asked if I would be willing to join him in selling Fuller brushes through the summer. It seemed like a perfect way to make some money for college. And being away from my parents and learning to make my own way gave me self confidence.”

Ifs Way Self Would Be School Parent My Own Perfect College Willing Summer High School Workers Self Confidence Selling Former Farms Brushes

Author:Billy Graham

“My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's where a lot of my comedy comes from. Not only was the maid very funny and witty, but when my mother came home I'd use humour to try and get her attention. If I made mommy laugh, then maybe everything would be all right. I think that's where it [my comedy] all started.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Made Use Home Would Be Mother Parent Attention Laughing Comedy Childhood Humour Lonely Raised Witty Maids Funny And Witty

Author:Robin Williams

“I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.”

People Facts Would Be Father Felt Parent Difficult Circumstances Mets Inspired Anxious Being A Father Good Parent Difficult Circumstances

Author:Andrew Solomon

“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

“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.”

Ifs Made Different Moments Would Be Parent

Author:Christian Boltanski

“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

“So it would be a good thing for Chinese parents to instill enthusiasm among their kids for football. It's a great game, not only regarding the emotions behind it, but it's also a game for young people to gain experience of working in a bigger group and work to achieve goals.”

People Would Be Kids Young Games Parent Goal Emotion Behinds Groups Achieve Football Gains Bigger Good Things Enthusiasm Chinese Instill Achieving Goals

Author:Berti Vogts

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