Parent Quotes - Page 23

• It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.

  Joanne Froggatt

  House, Height, Kind

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• The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Country, Hard Work, Blessing

  Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco

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• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Mother, Children

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

  Lisa Ling

  Kids, Way, Firsts

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• I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.

  Juliet Landau

  Fun, Play, Dolls

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills - that looks like me in real life'. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true.

  Sharon Stone

  Real, Kids, Thinking

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• There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

  Carre Otis

  Children, Realizing, Moments

  "In the Face of Change" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2012.

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• I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show Nanny 911 occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Children, Regret, Waiting

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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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• When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

  Alec Baldwin

  Actors

  "New Again: Alec Baldwin". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 19, 2012.

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• You should have access to ideas and information regardless of your age. If anyone is going to limit or guide a young person, it should be the parent or guardian and only the parent or guardian.

  Judith Krug

  Should Have, Ideas, Age

  "A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend" by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com. January 18, 1997).

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• The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.

  Emma Stone

  World, Want, Lasts

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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 am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.

  Shantel VanSanten

  Fire, Talking, Sitting

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• My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me what's wrong and right, and knowing that I had a little brother following me, I had to make sure I was doing the right thing so he knows what's right, too. I was in the house nine days out of 10. There wasn't nothing good outside for me.

  Russell Westbrook

  Brother, Growing Up, Knowing

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• I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.

  Brian J. White

  Mom, Dad, Three

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• My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked - just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humor.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Mom, Weed, Sex

  "Shia LeBeouf Admits to Watching His Parents Have Sex". www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2009.

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• My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

  Jeff Ross

  Uncles, Sarcasm, Aunt

  "Comedy, Then and Now: Laughing With the Legends of Stand-Up From the 1800’s to 2010" by Steve North, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2010.

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• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  Dakota Fanning

  Player, Grandparent, Tennis

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• I don't really date. I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college. I've always thought that's what it's supposed to be like, and if it's not, then I don't want to waste my time on it. Even when I was 14, I was like, 'I'm not gonna marry this person. What's the point of doing it?' It's not me being naive. I just know what it's supposed to be like, and I think until I feel that, I cannot be bothered.

  Dakota Fanning

  Thinking, College, Vision

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• Being a parent is very important to me.

  Diana Ross

  Important, Being A Parent

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• You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Girl, Children, Thinking

  "Showbiz Tonight" with Brooke Anderson, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2009.

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• I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

  Adam Carolla

  Hurt, Nice, People

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• I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don't sing. It was driving me crazy. 'We're doing 'Macbeth.'' 'Yes!' 'The musical!' And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing.

  Charlie Cox

  Crazy, School, Play

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

  Ben Stein

  Successful, People, Insecurity

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