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“I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.”

Thinking Knows Littles Faces Father Parent Poor Taste Negative Britain Swimming Say Anything Glee Poor Taste Little Britain

Author:David Walliams

“Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the courage to become a resource in unfamiliar areas of knowledge and in ones for which one has no taste. But parents, no less than teachers, must respect a child's mind and not exploit it for their own vanity or ambition, or to soothe their own anxiety.”

Mind Children Helping Parent Imagination Levels Teacher Taste Anxiety Ambition Intellectual Adults Resources Areas Genuine Vanity Inquiry Exploits Unfamiliar Helping Children

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.”

Children Shows Father Belief Parent Pleasure Generations Son Taste Tendencies Denial Denied Abnormal Clergymen

Book:The Story of a Literary Career

Source: The Story of a Literary Career

“I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or have not judgment, penetration or taste to perform the task.”

Knows Children Parent Taste Directors Judgment Reflection Tasks Management Melancholy Sole Penetration

Author:Sir Fulke Greville

“My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.”

Parent Style Taste Inspired Very Inspired

Author:Zoe Kravitz

“Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselves as thinking, feeling people. It is far too easy for a middle-years child to absorb an over-simplified picture of himself as a sloppy, unreliable, careless, irresponsible, lazy creature and not much more--an attitude toward himself he will carry far beyond these years.”

People Thinking Years Children Helping Feelings Individual Easy Parent Views Attitude Middle Taste Creatures Individuality Developing Lazy Careless Irresponsible Unreliable Sloppy

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe.”

Ifs Feels Long Made Said Running Fun Parent Realizing Taught Taste Safe Long Time Raised Tyranny Fuel Shrinks Good Taste

Author:John Waters

“Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.”

Children Littles Parent Water Wonder Principles Taste Bitter Poison Fountain

Book:Locke, Berkely & Hume

Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume

“Hip-hop wasn't actually the genre that made me want to make sound, and I couldn't actually really pinpoint what genre it was. Growing up, my favorite music was my parents' music, and eventually I started to develop some taste of my own.”

Want Made Parent Sound My Own Growing Up Growing Taste My Favorite Hip Hop Hips Genre Hops Favorite Music

Author:Grieves

“Today it feels as if rock'n'roll has sort of turned in on its self, kids are 'rockin' to the same groups their parents do/did. We've seen it recently with The Stone Roses reunion shows, quite unique but is it healthy. Wasn't the 60's about rebelling against the tastes of your parents?”

Ifs Feels Self Shows Kids Today Parent Groups Rocks Healthy Taste Unique Stones Rose Rock N Roll Reunion

Author:Andrew Loog Oldham

“I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.”

Parent Listening Taste Stones Rolling Macs Rolling Stones Fleetwood Mac

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.”

Self Able Desire Parent Brother Taste Vices My Brother Aspiration Closest Shelves Snooping Bookcases Scanning

Author:Anne Fadiman

“On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.”

Source: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“...and once at Hana's house, when we stole some blackberry liqueur from her parents' liquor cabinet and drank until the ceiling started spinning overhead. Hana was laughing and giggling, but I didn't like it, didn't like the sweet sick taste in my mouth or the way my thoughts seemed to break apart like a mist in the sun.”

Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem