Parent Quotes - Page 10

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

  Anne Lamott

  Self, Identity, World

  "Anne Lamott's directions for grandparents: 'Some Assembly Required'". Interview with Katia Hetter, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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• It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.

  Anne Lamott

  Kids, Thinking, Self

  "Anne Lamott's directions for grandparents: 'Some Assembly Required'". Interview with Katia Hetter, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing. No health insurance, so if something happened I was screwed. I was lucky my parents had money and my brother was willing to support me for a long time. Once I started doing standup, I had an income, and that was amazing to me.

  Lewis Black

  Brother, Long, Support

  "Lewis Black on politics, aging, and being the guy who yells". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2012.

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• I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Airplane, Atmosphere, Mars

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Kids, Adults, Come Up

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson On Literacy, Curiosity, Education, And Being 'In Your Face'". Interview with Linda Holmes, www.npr.org. February 25, 2010.

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• When you become a parent you're endlessly obsessed with chatting to other moms and learning how they make it work - keep all the balls in the air if you like - because we all want to know how to be the best mom that we possibly can be.

  Tess Daly

  Mom, Air, Balls

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

  Neil Diamond

  People, Young, Music Is

  "Neil Diamond Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.

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• I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Children, Aunt, Discipline

  "Ellen DeGeneres is in the house". Interview with Mary Cadden, www.usatoday.com. January 25, 2015.

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• I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against that. I think it's a great life, and yeah, you can lead them in that direction. I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it, they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Athlete, Kids, Thinking

  "Q&A WITH Wayne Gretzky : He's on the Ice, Feeling Fit Again : Hockey: His back is sound and the Kings are getting better. And people who say he's the Average One motivate him to continued greatness". Interview with Steve Springer, articles.latimes.com. September 13, 1990.

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• I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Kids, Thinking, Want

  "Q&A WITH Wayne Gretzky : He's on the Ice, Feeling Fit Again : Hockey: His back is sound and the Kings are getting better. And people who say he's the Average One motivate him to continued greatness". Interview with Steve Springer, articles.latimes.com. September 13, 1990.

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• It's a mistake to just go make a movie where the whole thing is talking down to the kids like, "Ok, we gotta bring the IQ of this movie down because it's a kids movie" You don't have to do that, kids can laugh and parents can laugh at different parts and that's fun, and you see that with all of the great kids movies.

  Jack Black

  Fun, Mistake, Kids

  "Jack Black Talks Playing R.L. Stine, Slappy, and More on the Set of GOOSEBUMPS". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. July 21, 2015.

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• I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Daughter, Growing Up, Home

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Thinking, Disappear

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom was like, "Put that thing off and put my damn record on". So from old school to '90s to recent, it's just always been there.

  Solange Knowles

  Mom, Brother, Old School

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have never lied to the people. I have always told them to love themselves, to move their body, and to watch their portions. I never jumped on any other bandwagons for stupid diets or shots or pills or anything. I'm very worried about our young people. And we need to take care of them, or they're not going to live as long as their parents. And this is really something very important to me.

  Richard Simmons

  Stupid, Moving, Long

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings, horrible; lynching death, all of that, horrible. But the living life of a parent who, A, has no control over what happens to your children, none. They don't belong to you. You may not even nurse them. They may be shipped off somewhere, as in "Beloved" the mother was, to be nursed by somebody who was not able to work in the fields and was a wet nurse.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Mother, Breakup

  "Toni Morrison On Human Bondage And A Post-Racial Age". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2008.

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• Student loan debt is crushing young people. And so they're not doing the things we would expect them to do. They're not moving out of their parents' homes in as big a numbers, they're not saving up money for down payments, they're not buying homes or cars or starting small businesses or doing any of the things that help move this economy forward.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Crush, Moving, Home

  "Sen. Warren Introduces Bill On Student Debt". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wnyc.org. May 6, 2014.

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• I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven't done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.

  Denzel Washington

  Mother, Father, Believe

  "Denzel Washington ‘The Great Debaters’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. December 24, 2007.

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• To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

  Trent Reznor

  Hate, Thinking, Rocks

  "This Is the Sound: The Best of Alternative Rock". Book by Randi Reisfeld, 2008.

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• You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.

  Brandi Carlile

  Life Lesson, Divorce, First Love

  "Bear Creek : A Conversation With Brandi Carlile, Plus Rocket Juice & The Moon by Galen Hawthorne". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 04, 2012.

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• Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

  Philip Yancey

  Attitude, Use Of Power, Limits

  Philip Yancey (2002). “Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?”, p.244, Zondervan

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• 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.

  Mary Karr

  Sibling, Mean, Kids

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• Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

  Walter Mosley

  Adrift, Way, Losing

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• We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Divorce, Home

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• I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

  Brené Brown

  Believe, Adventure, Ideas

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.216, Penguin

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