Parent Quotes - Page 30

• My first love is my mother. She did so much for us as children as a single parent. I watched her make a dollar out of fifteen cents. I thought she was either a magician or she had God's actual phone number. She wasn't a motivational speaker; she was an inspirational speaker.

  Betty Wright

  Mother, Children, First Love

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• Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a kid, my parents found an old copy of the LP recording of Richard Burton in John Gielgud's Broadway production of Hamlet and they gave it to me for my birthday. I listened to it till the grooves wore thin and I was off and running.

  Ken Ludwig

  Running, Kids, Play

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• I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed, often driving my parents crazy with unanswerable questions.

  Missy Higgins

  Crazy, Kids, Depth

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• My parents would tell us to go outside and play or to do creative stuff, but television was very limited. So we used our own creativity to entertain ourselves. We were out in the woods a lot making huts and playing horses.

  Jan Brett

  Horse, Creativity, Play

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It is important that parents pour out their love self-sacrificially for their children, which includes practicing what they preach, i.e. living in the love of Christ and seeking to emulate His example in their daily lives.

  Joseph Pearce

  Children, Self, Important

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• People were having sex before I was born. My parents had sex before I was born, nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to stop sex. I'm trying to stop people from dying from sex.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Sex, People, Dying

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• My parents created a world in which the only ­barrier to your success is your own imagination.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Imagination, World, Barriers

  "Shondaland roundtable: Viola Davis, Ellen Pompeo, and Kerry Washington go unfiltered". Interview with Melissa Maerz, ew.com. September 21, 2015.

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• Nobody is excused from the excellence trend. Babies are not excused. Starting right after they get out of the womb, modern babies are exposed to instructional flashcards designed to make them the best babies they can possibly be, so they can get into today's competitive preschools. Your eighties baby sees so many flashcards that he never gets an unobstructed view of his parents' faces. As an adult, he'll carry around a little wallet card that says "7x9=63," because it will remind him of mother.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Mother, Baby

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• For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Unfinished Business, Guilt, Relation

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• For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Journey, Years, Wind

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• You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.

  Ibn Warraq

  Children, Growing Up, Way

  Source: ibnwarraq.com

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• You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.

  Christian Boltanski

  Different, Would Be, Moments

  Interview with Lucy Rees, www.lucyreesart.com. May 13, 2014.

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• When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I'm sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can't imagine why they kept me.

  Christian Boltanski

  Mother, Father, Years

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• There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.

  Christian Boltanski

  Adults, Creation, One Time

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different. The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you - you've killed them in a way. Is it destiny? Was it written somewhere that this was to be your life? Is it useful that you are here? Or is it simply by chance?

  Christian Boltanski

  Children, Mean, Destiny

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• I remember driving around with my parents when I was little and looking out of the window and being very aware that it was the shape of a film screen when you went to the cinema. This was how I first saw the world, framed through a car window.

  Rankin

  Car, Cinema, World

  Source: ashadedviewonfashion.com

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• So it would be a good thing for Chinese parents to instill enthusiasm among their kids for football. It's a great game, not only regarding the emotions behind it, but it's also a game for young people to gain experience of working in a bigger group and work to achieve goals.

  Berti Vogts

  Football, Kids, Games

  Source: news.xinhuanet.com

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• Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children.

  John G. Miller

  Children, Mistake, Helping

  Source: www.jmlalonde.com

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• My parents and grandparents always made me feel fortunate. I'm in a position to help others feel the same. It's just in my heart and is something I feel very very strong about.

  Kevin Martin

  Strong, Heart, Helping Others

  Source: thestartingfive.net

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• My mother set to work whilst i was 7 and I loved looking to make her really feel badly about it. Ultimately, I matured and was once very pleased with my mom as my parent and the career she had constructed for herself.

  Heather McDonald

  Mom, Mother, Careers

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• Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.

  Wendy Kopp

  Strong, School, Creating

  Source: www.economist.com

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• That happens a lot when people become parents, too. There's just so much at stake suddenly, and you're also witness to the total miracle of birth, and stuff like that. So I started reading tons of religious texts and checking everything out. One of the things I wanted to make sure of on the record is that it still has a "searching" vibe rather than an authoritative vibe.

  Mason Jennings

  Religious, Reading, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

  Renzo Rosso

  Feelings, Rebel, Generations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the child alone, but it does mean creating safe spaces where the child can be with other people. It does mean directing their attention to God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Beautiful, Children, Mean

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone you have to get down on your knees for an hour in a yoga posture.

  Henri Nouwen

  Children, Yoga, Mean

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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