Parent Quotes - Page 25

• Whenever I write about my family, I start by getting my parent`s approval. I like to think I write about them with obvious affection. When it comes to the people I'm related to, I consider myself to be very lucky.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

  Anjelica Huston

  Pay, Way, Stealing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Children, Class, Racism

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• I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my parents worked. I obviously wanted to learn to play. And so she asked if she could teach me, and my mother said don't you think she's too young. My grandmother apparently said no. So I could read music before I could read, and I really don't remember learning to read music. So for me it's like a native language. When I look at a sheet of music, it just makes sense.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mother, Thinking, Play

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• I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had. Even when I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing.

  Michelle Obama

  Teacher, Blessed, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says."

  Jonah Hill

  Growing Up, Writing, Play

  "Jonah Hill "Allen Gregory" Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 29, 2011.

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• My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Never Mind the Mullahs". Interview with Vivienne Walt, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2008.

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• I kind of was shoveled onto a boat at 11 and went to England. I didn't have any parent watching over me. It was very free and may have been a bit of a scary time for me, but I really don't remember much about the voyage apart from playing ping-pong a lot with a couple friends.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Couple, Scary, Ping Pong

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• There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Interview with Ricky Young, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.

  Ann Voskamp

  Gratitude, Stress, Giving

  "Finding Joy in the Nitty-Gritty: An Interview with Ann Voskamp". "Homeschool Heartbeat" podcast with Mike Farris (Volume 127, Week 14), hslda.org. August 8-12, 2016.

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• When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth, so that's OK with me. If something true came out, I would have to check my circle to see who's talking and possibly make an apology phone call to my parents!

  Eva Mendes

  Lying, Writing, Mean

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com.

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• My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Choices, Way, My Family

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Every day after school, for three hours a day, I would sell those pralines on the street corner. I was just eight years old. I'd bring the money home to my parents and say, "This is just the beginning."

  Richard Simmons

  Home, School, Eight

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service. Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy.

  Keke Palmer

  Philosophy, Happy Life, Careers

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I’ve met kids who haven’t had the best of parents but because they had something in them, or they had somebody at school help develop them, they turned out fine.

  Common

  School, Kids, Helping

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. November 8, 2014.

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• It's a crazy time right now with kids. They are so much, more savvy than even their parents are. They are handing down their devices to their parents. They are giving their parents the old iPad in exchange for the new one. It's a whole different world nowadays and they are in control and in charge of technology. It's scary but at the same time it's exciting. There are a lot of choices for them.

  Tyra Banks

  Crazy, Kids, Technology

  "Model to Mogul and Beyond". Interview with Ty-Ron Mayes, westeastmag.com. October 27, 2012.

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• If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.

  Gloria Steinem

  Ideas, Giving, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can make changes in your life and you can say, "I'm going to be a better parent next year than I am right now," or, "I'm going to take an extra step in my career and not just be satisfied where I am." So it has a lot to do with our will, but also we have to work as well.

  Joel Osteen

  Years, Careers, Next Year

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Mom, Artist, Guitar

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I used humor to avoid being picked on as a kid. Or I would try and make my parents laugh, so I wouldn't get in trouble. But as a kid, I would watch Flip Wilson and I would memorize his whole routine, listen to Bill Cosby's records constantly, Steve Martin, Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball. I just drank that stuff up and loved it.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Kids, Laughing, Trying

  "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Growing up, I was the weird, theatrical kid who always tried to make people be in my plays. I've always loved comedy, but when it came time to figure out what I was going to go to school for, my parents were like, "Acting?! I don't think so. No." It took me a while to get the courage to pursue it. I had to do it in secret for a little bit, and then when I got married and was out on my own, I went for it.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Growing Up, School, Kids

  "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I think we think that parenthood is confined to the country of mothers, but I think a lot of the men I've spoken to and the men who have read my books - I've been surprised by this actually - have a fierce attachment to being parents and to being fathers. And just as we, a lot of women I know, want this, men too want to pass down what they have to pass down.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Country, Mother, Father

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A sense of self has to be sought in the parade of images and products; and this culture becomes the main determinant upon morality, beliefs, and purpose, usurping more and more territory that formerly belonged to parents, teachers, community, priests, and politics alike.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Teacher, Self, Community

  Jeremy Seabrook (1978). “What Went Wrong?: Why Hasn't Having More Made People Happier?”, Pantheon

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• My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together.

  Hayden Panettiere

  People, Together, Meant To Be

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew up feeling very comfortable around books. Also, Ireland is a country which has honoured its writers and poets, so when someone says they wanted to be a writer, its not mocked or looked down upon.

  Michael Scott

  Country, Book, Taken

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