Parent Quotes - Page 29

• Where are all the sour patch parents?

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Patches

  Song: Binary Reality, Album: Words Words Words, 2010

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• I couldn't be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

  "Something to Take the Edge Off". Comedy album by Doug Stanhope, 2000.

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• My parents said they had to make a lot of sacrifices to pay for my education... because they were both druids.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Sacrifice

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• When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "Emo, don't go near the cellar door!" One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Emo, Nice

  "E=MO²". Album by Emo Philips, 1985.

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• I'm the youngest, too. When you're the youngest of a big family, people are like, "You're the baby, you're spoiled!" The fact of the matter is, when you're the youngest of a big family, by the time you're a teenager, your parents are insane. You're like, "Hey, I'm going roller-skating-" "You're not going roller-skating or you'll end up pregnant like your sister. Why don't you smoke pot and become a lawyer?"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Baby, Teenager

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• And some people say Jesus wasn't Jewish. Of COURSE he was Jewish! 30 years old, single, lives with his parents, come on! He works in his father's business, his mom thought he was God's gift, he's Jewish! Give it up!

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Mom, Jesus

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• My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Radio

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• When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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• I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.

  Anne Waldman

  New York, Cities, Village

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work. At 12 I was emancipated from my parents so I could sign my first record deal. I think I was born working!

  Jessica Simpson

  Thinking, Records, Firsts

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.

  Eric Hutchinson

  Song, Mean, Play

  Source: blog.murfie.com

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• My parents say that I was singing before I could talk. I personally remember specific moments at three or four when music was playing literally all over the house.

  Tori Kelly

  House, Singing, Three

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• I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told me to be quiet, turn the music down or anything like that. So I felt pretty free and experimental as a kid to kind of figure out my own voice.

  Tori Kelly

  Kids, Voice, House

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• When I was young I was very close to my parents. I never liked staying at my mates' houses, I always wanted to be with my parents and then suddenly at 17 I was like, "Oh well, maybe I should just move half way around the world."

  Gregg Sulkin

  Moving, House, Way

  "Interview – Gregg Sulkin returns in Wizards of Waverly Place". Jewish News Interview, jewishnews.timesofisrael.com. May 22, 2013.

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• I went from living with my parents, to being signed out of high school. I have never, not had a boss, or someone else responsible for me. It is really cool as an artist to have that freedom.

  Tyler Hilton

  School, Artist, Boss

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three young children, I had to start to plan my future after dance even though I dreaded about.

  Li Cunxin

  Children, Years, Careers

  Source: tacdc.com.au

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• She got really mad a month ago, because she had e-mailed me a naked picture of herself - which is a nice thing to do - but then I messed up, and I accidentally forwarded that e-mail to both of my parents. Now, my girlfriend is furious, mortified, but I don't even care, 'cause now I have to call up my mother and say 'Mom, I am so sorry - that picture was just for dad.'

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• We just found out my little brother has a peanut allergy, which is very serious I know. But still I feel like my parents are totally overreacting - they caught me eating a tiny little bag of airline peanuts and they kicked me out of his funeral.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• No parents. You have Uncle Jesse, forever in overalls. Then there's Bo and Duke. What do they do? I never saw them working for food or gas money. You can only kill so many possum.

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Uncles, Humor

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• My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Understood

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• I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents... my dad told me "You're good; you should be a computer programmer." I said, "You're bad... you should be a caveman."

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Dad, Humor

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• I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.

  Anne Waldman

  War, School, Years

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People coming in from abroad. There was a sense of community around ideas: a discourse and an adhesiveness which is my favorite word from [Walt] Whitman.

  Anne Waldman

  Ideas, Favorite Words, People

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I have the most amazing and supportive family. My parents always encouraged us to aim high and follow our dreams. They instilled in us that nothing worth having comes easy.

  Jamie Eason

  Dream, Supportive, Most Amazing

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• My parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.

  Bruce Brown

  School, Succeed, Values

  "Interview | eSkillsLearning with Bruce Brown". Interview with Victor Rivero, edtechdigest.com. February 1, 2011.

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