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• Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their back on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.

  Myles Munroe

  Walking Away, People, Frustrated

  Source: encomium.ng

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• There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of themselves as liberal and removed from barbarity, but it also was the era of Vietnam. I very much was influenced - and I think the whole country was kind of in a state of shock - for the first time seeing the horror and cruelty of war.

  Wes Craven

  Country, War, Hero

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.

  John Waters

  Government, House, Shutting Down

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• I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.

  John Waters

  Home, School, Perfectly Normal

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• Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.

  John Waters

  Years, Idiot, Blame

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• If you're a parent, I tell you how to get through Christmas. I think that if you've ever had a bad feeling about Christmas coming, I'll tell you how to deal with it. So, I think in a way it's like going to a sane psychiatrist that actually gives you some good advice, I hope!

  John Waters

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

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• If you can imagine the area and the land in Cambodia, I mean there are hardly any roads in big parts of the country. The roads they have, in the rainy season, become just mud. So, if you’re somebody that has just one leg, or blind with no arms and you have children and you’re trying to work, and earn some money, and take care of your home, it’s hard enough to be a parent and do all of that normally.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Children, Home

  Interview with Jenny Lange, www.unhcr.org. October 21, 2002.

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• I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid. Of course, when a chaplain shows up, that can exacerbate this worry rather than calm it.

  John Green

  Religious, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

  John Green

  Father, Character, Interesting

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

  John Green

  School, Thinking, Littles

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

  John Green

  Children, Love Is, Long

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  College, White, Confusion

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves.

  Johnny Carson

  Hero, Kids, Break

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I get sick of that old rationalization, "We're staying together because of the children." Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents who can't stand each other. They're far better off if there's an honest, clean divorce.

  Johnny Carson

  Children, Kids, Divorce

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I've always been a horror fan! Ever since I can vastly remember, and I think it's because I was so terrified of monsters and ghosts as a kid that I had to sleep in front of my parents room until I was 12.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Kids, Sleep, Thinking

  "Fantasia 2014: A Gothic Interview With Matthew Gray Gubler". Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.yellmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• True love in Mexico isn't between lovers; it's between a parent and a child. Mexico is a very intense culture of sons adoring their mothers, and this is why I claim that Mexican culture is matriarchal. Because the one constant, faithful, inviolable, holy love of loves - the love of your life - is not your wife or your lover; it's your mother.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mother, Children, Son

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• To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.

  Brooklyn Sudano

  Mom, Art, Dad

  Source: www.flowinsiders.com

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• When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.

  Brooklyn Sudano

  People, Want, Able

  Source: www.flowinsiders.com

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• Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well.

  Nicole Richie

  Grateful, Everyday, Be Kind

  Source: www.buro247.com

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• We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.

  Maurice Sendak

  Nice, Christmas Card, Cards

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• Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.

  Maurice Sendak

  Kids, Unheard

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• I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Discreet, Immigrants

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was raised Jewish by atheistic-agnostic parents. During this journey, I had people from all walks and all faiths try to help. A Jewish priest who I was friends with wanted to lay hands on me - I didn't ask questions about how - I just said when and where and how often do you want to do it? I didn't argue.

  Mark Nepo

  Journey, Hands, People

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• Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.

  David E. Sorensen

  Pain, Children, Heart

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• Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Matter, Made

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

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