Parent Quotes - Page 28

• Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Children, Important

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Ideas, Years

  Source: sites.google.com

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• To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.

  Michelle Obama

  Emotional, Energy, Needs

  "Michelle Obama talks nutrition and 'wakeup call' moment in her family's past". Interview with Morgan Whitaker, www.aol.com. September 10, 2015.

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• The more valuable you become [in your company], the more influence you have, the better communicator you are, you manage your time better, and you recognize people for their contributions. You also become more valuable as a spouse, parent and friend.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Influence, Spouse

  Source: www.selfgrowth.com

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• My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's where a lot of my comedy comes from. Not only was the maid very funny and witty, but when my mother came home I'd use humour to try and get her attention. If I made mommy laugh, then maybe everything would be all right. I think that's where it [my comedy] all started.

  Robin Williams

  Mother, Witty, Lonely

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am utterly against any kind of guilt. Remember it always: if you start feeling guilty about something around me, then you are doing it on your own, then you are still carrying the voices of your parents, the priests within you; you have not yet heard me, you have not yet listened to me. I want you to be totally free of all guilt.

  Rajneesh

  Voice, Feelings, Guilt

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• Parents create guilt. That is the greatest sin against humanity. To create guilt in a child is criminal because once the guilt is created, the child will never be free of it. Unless he is very intelligent it will be impossible for him to get rid of it; something of it will remain around him like a hangover.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Hangover, Intelligent

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• Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. A very simple, but very cunning trick to manipulate you. They have condemned you, because if you are accepted, not condemned - loved, appreciated, and if it is relayed to you from everywhere that you are okay - then it will be difficult to control you. How to control a person who is absolutely okay? The very problem doesn`t arise.

  Rajneesh

  Simple, Guilt, Way

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• If you really want to drop the guilt you will have to drop your parental voices within, the priestly voices within. You will have to get rid of your parents and your conditioning. Life has been in such a trap up to now that even a small child starts feeling guilty. We have not yet been able to develop an education which can help people to grow without feeling guilty. And unless that education happens man will remain ill, ill at ease.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Men, Voice

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• Most people think that aging is genetic and yet if your parents lived to age 80+ that will add three years to your life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.

  Alice Walker

  Children, People, Grandparent

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• Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.

  Pete Docter

  Children, Purity And Innocence, Childhood

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents want you to go to the next level of whatever, and I decided that I ought to be an architect. I can't tell you why. And I tried, and I had no aptitude for it.

  Bruce Molsky

  Brother, Dad, Grandfather

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. And the way I would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, I'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. I did believe that.

  Philip Pullman

  Teacher, Real, Believe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.

  Jeff Bridges

  Jobs, Father, Ideas

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview with Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. November, 2011.

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• I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Thinking, Born

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Assuming, Language

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• I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.

  Andrew Solomon

  Father, People, Would Be

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• I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Grief, Gay

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• The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Growing Up, Gay

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• Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to people who think the quick fix for education is to threaten people. It's not a left-right division.

  Deborah Meier

  Teacher, Kids, School

  "Q&A: Deborah Meier". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2008.

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• Of course parents want their children to confide in them.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Children, Want, Courses

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.

  Gary Panter

  Growing Up, Play, Long

  Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.

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• Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

  Barry Hannah

  Children, Grew Up, Elders

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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