Parent Quotes - Page 22

• When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.

  Ben Stiller

  New York, Growing Up, Fun

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• Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.

  Lionel Richie

  Struggle, Years, Survivor

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• It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.

  George Osborne

  Life, People, Inheritance

  House of Commons, Oral Answers to Questions, www.publications.parliament.uk. July 8, 2015.

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• He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

  Seneca the Younger

  Plato, Mean, Son

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• Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

  A. E. Hotchner

  Kids, Thinking, Helping

  A. E. Hotchner (2007). “The Boyhood Memoirs of A.E. Hotchner”

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• Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Inattention, Sometimes, Listen To Me

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• I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

  Paul A. Offit

  Children, Anger, Levels

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• What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher. . . . Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Teacher, Boys, Years

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• [Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

  Raymond S. Moore

  School, Creative, Peers

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• Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.

  William E. Rothschild

  Keys, Giving, Car

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• When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, I think I heard you say lawyer.

  Maz Jobrani

  Mom, Thinking, Actors

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• Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

  Francis Chan

  Teaching, Mean, Kids

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• We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because if a parent is unhappy with what their child is being taught in school, they can go to that local school board or their state legislature, or their governor and get it changed.

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Educational, School

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.

  John Lithgow

  Father, Sibling, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I cannot control what you bring into the theater when you see the film. I can't control what my parents bring in. I can't control what some random person on Twitter brings in to the theater. All I can control is the hour and 50 minutes that the movie lasts, and try to give it absolutely everything I can.

  James Ponsoldt

  Giving, Trying, Lasts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Father, Journey

  GOP Debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 07, 2015.

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• When I was going through the stuff with my dad and thinking about terms like restraining order and domestic violence, I was really just searching for a way to define what I was going through. I didn't really understand what it meant to disown a parent or not want to have a parent in your life. Even the word parent was confusing to me because my father came into my life so late in my teen years.

  Chelsea Martin

  Dad, Father, Thinking

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• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Sweet, Different, Would Be

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Chemistry is like an indefinable thing. When it comes to people playing your best friend or your parents or anything like that, there's always different kind of element to chemistry.

  Emma Stone

  People, Different, Elements

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• All parents are trying to balance. Look, I'm lucky in the sense that I can control my hours. I can choose my jobs, and not everybody has that choice. But I definitely, it's a family decision every time I take a job.

  Matt Damon

  Jobs, Choices, Decision

  "Actor-screenwriter-producer Matt Damon, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 11, 2012.

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• My parents divorced when I was one year old so I don't really remember any of the details, but luckily my mom does so she's been really helpful.

  Chelsea Peretti

  Mom, Years, Details

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• When you gaze upon the lovely sight. Of twins, arm in arm, asleep at night. Think not that the house has been doubly messed. But that you, as parents, have been doubly blessed.

  John Walter Bratton

  Blessed, Night, Thinking

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• My parents don't care what Americans think of us; we just care what the other Indian people in our community think of us.

  Himanshu Suri

  Thinking, People, Community

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I look at young kids today I just don't believe it, parents take away the Gameboy and they're suicidal. They cannot take the pressure.

  Jackie Chan

  Believe, Suicidal, Kids

  "The Karate Kid - Jackie Chan interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isnt always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

  Regina King

  Children, Divorce, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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