Parent Quotes - Page 16

• When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'

  Kevin Harrington

  Jobs, Real, Young Entrepreneurs

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• Im from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.

  Cassie Ventura

  Mom, Fun, Dad

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• Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

  Karen DeCrow

  Men, Said, Should

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• Could we betray our parents by going back to them?

  Karen Russell

  Betray

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• A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

  Heather O'Neill

  Children, Growing Up, Cities

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• When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

  Michael Mina

  Doctors, Choices, Three

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• My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Mom, Strong, Dad

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• Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.

  Ken Livingstone

  Kids

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• I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Summer, Adventure, Portland Oregon

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• My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Income, Speech

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• I’m honored that PBteen has seen me as someone who can help a broader audience understand the need to use recycled, repurposed and organic materials. Global conservation is a focal point of the capsule collection and it falls right in line with the change and direction I’m working towards, on a professional and personal basis. In collaborating with PBteen, we are creating a subtle and natural feel with this collection - something that has an authentic appeal for teens and their parents alike.

  Kelly Slater

  Fall, Creating, Needs

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• My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

  Charlie Trotter

  Laissez Faire Capitalism, Ultimate, Upbringing

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• I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.

  Rich Mullins

  Smart, Thinking, Who I Am

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• I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.

  Chris Lilley

  Hard Times, Thinking, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

  Chad Harbach

  Writing, Ideas, Precarious

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• Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.

  Chris Abani

  Sibling, Successful, Artist

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• Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

  George Smoot

  Mathematics, Interest

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• I think just what my parents instilled in me was hard work and being able to always go out there and focus and be 100%. I took that work ethic into the NFL and everyday I always gave 100% and never wanted anything to be handed to me. I wanted to earn it. And every time I stepped on that football field during practice I wanted to leave that football field with learning something about what the practice was about for me that day...

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Hard Work, Thinking

  "The Secrets To Jerry Rice’s Hall Of Fame Football Career Can Be Found In Crawford, Mississippi". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

  Jose Andres

  School, Holiday, Kids

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• The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

  Horace

  Family, Dowry, Virtue

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• Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you're the kind of person who's going to have that feeling about a dog you're definitely going to have that about a child.

  Joan Didion

  Dog, Children, People

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• I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, This is how youre supposed to do it. And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, Heres the good stuff in life. How do you get there?

  Rich Mullins

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.

  Wayne Dyer

  Trying, Littles, Tiny

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society.

  Paul Stanley

  Brother, Kids, Rocks

  "Kiss: Miley Cyrus is 'being treated unfairly'". Interview with Daniel D'Addario, www.salon.com. September 12, 2013.

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• 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.

  Kenna

  Perseverance, Real, Hard Work

  Source: www.elle.com

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