Parent Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• My parents were really nice to me.

  Bryan Callen

  Nice, Really Nice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.

  Slavenka Drakulic

  Mother, Son, Matter

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• each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

  Lucy Freeman

  Children, Civilization, Survival

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• My parents professed to believe in God, but I rarely heard his name mentioned unattached to 'damn' or 'sakes' or 'willing.

  Edith Konecky

  God, Believe, Names

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• You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Humor, Kids

  "President Bush Addresses Taxes, Social Security in Independence, Missouri". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. August 21, 2001.

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• Religion is a personal, private matter and parents, not public school officials, should decide their children's religious training. We should not have teacher-led prayers in public schools, and school officials should never favor one religion over another, or favor religion over no religion (or vice versa). I also believe that schools should not restrict students' religious liberties. The free exercise of faith is the fundamental right of every American, and that right doesn't stop at the schoolhouse door.

  George W. Bush

  Teacher, Religious, Prayer

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• My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

  Arabella Weir

  Simple, Generations, Fats

  "Arabella Weir: I weighed my parents' love on the bathroom scales". www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Class, Our Society, Blame

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

  Joni Mitchell

  Giving Up, Fighting, Warrior

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• I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

  Eric Close

  Taken, College, Men

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• We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in their existence that we would wish, but I don't think censorship is ever the solution to any problem, be it societal or be it the kind of information or ideas that you have access to.

  Judith Krug

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  "Easy Access?" by Spencer Michels, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, August 7, 1997.

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• I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.

  Christine Lakin

  Stupid, School, Healthy

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• My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

  Brian Blessed

  Honesty, Kindness, Adventure

  "My family values: Brian Blessed". Interview with Chris Hall, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.

  Rani Mukerji

  Children, Giving, Remember

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• My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.

  Harry Lloyd

  Italian, Polish, Knows

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• Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

  Tyne Daly

  Thinking, Important, Acting

  "Love and All That Comes With It". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. May 23, 2014.

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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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• The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.

  Edward Gibbon

  Revenge, Ambition, Men

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.488

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• Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his amorous passions was never diverted from their lawful objects. The proud titles of Imperial greatness were adorned by the tender names of a faithful husband, an indulgent father; his uncle was raised, by his affectionate esteem, to the rank of a second parent.

  Edward Gibbon

  Uncles, Husband, Father

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus”, p.26, 谷月社

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• The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to each other and even to ourselves. It is precise, disciplined, and enormously compassionate. Most important, once we study NVC we can't ignore the potential for transformation that lies in any difficult relationship - if we only bother to communicate with skill and empathy.

  Bernie Glassman

  Teacher, Children, Lying

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• There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.

  Rupert Graves

  Children, Thinking, Age

  "Rupert bared". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2002.

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• A parent has to be silent much of the time.

  Helen Beardsley

  Silent

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• I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.

  Meaghan Rath

  Years, Agents, Remember

  "Meaghan Rath Exclusive Interview BEING HUMAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I fully believe in ghosts. I have, my entire life. The first house I ever lived in was haunted. There was a grave of a man in the backyard. I was just a baby then, but my parents would tell me that every night, at the same time, they would hear someone walking up the stairs.

  Meaghan Rath

  Baby, Believe, Men

  "Get to Know Being Human's Meaghan Rath". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2011.

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