Parent Quotes - Page 31

• Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.

  Perry Brass

  Kids, Rude, Awakening

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.28, Perry Brass

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• We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

  George H. W. Bush

  Children, Home, Mean

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.

  Lionel Richie

  Struggle, Years, Survivor

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• My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

  Kate Fleetwood

  Dad, People, Theater

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• From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.

  Louis Adamic

  Religious, Nice, Ocean

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• Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Inattention, Sometimes, Listen To Me

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• Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers have. If bad guilt is a monster, good guilt is a friendly fairy godmother, yakking away in your head to keep you alert to the needs of your baby.

  Jean Marzollo

  Baby, Children, Responsibility

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• A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordinary amount of room for economic inequality, violence and male dominance.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Commitment, Two, Economic Inequality

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• What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher. . . . Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Teacher, Boys, Years

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• Just stick with your kids. There's no set of rules on how to be a parent. No handbook. Just hang around your kids and ask them a lot of questions. You have to stay involved in your children's lives and monitor everything they're doing whether they like it or not. You're not in the job of making them like it. You're there to protect them in a world that can be troubling.

  Denzel Washington

  Jobs, Children, Kids

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• More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Mean, Thinking, Listening

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide her... Some have attempted to help her but most have simply tried to use her. Humans, who have been given the task to lovingly steer the world, instead plunder her with no consideration, other than their immediate needs. And they give little thought for their own children who will inherit their lack of love. So they use her and abuse her with little consideration and then when she shudders of blows her breath. They are offended and raise their fist at God.

  William P. Young

  Children, Blow, Giving

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• My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

  Bonnie Hammer

  Kids, Belief, Moral

  "Bonnie Hammer: She is Sci Fi". Interview with Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2001.

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• Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

  A. E. Hotchner

  Kids, Thinking, Helping

  A. E. Hotchner (2007). “The Boyhood Memoirs of A.E. Hotchner”

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• No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

  Billy Graham

  Children, Mistake, Thinking

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• Parents don't get that, though. They don't understand about the fragility of teen friendships. They don't understand how easy it is for things to break apart, how someone you thought would be by your side forever can just disappear, or turn on you, or decide she likes someone more than she likes you. Parents always talk about romantic relationships being so ephemeral and fleeting in high school. What they don't get is that friendships can be the same way.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  School, Your Side, Forever

  Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “The Thing About the Truth”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.

  Margaret D. Nadauld

  Knowing, Community, Church

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• Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.

  William E. Rothschild

  Keys, Giving, Car

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• We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because if a parent is unhappy with what their child is being taught in school, they can go to that local school board or their state legislature, or their governor and get it changed.

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Educational, School

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Chemistry is like an indefinable thing. When it comes to people playing your best friend or your parents or anything like that, there's always different kind of element to chemistry.

  Emma Stone

  People, Different, Elements

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• I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.

  Andrew Hollander

  Fun, Home, Years

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• I learned a lot about my parents, who were both teachers. I had known that my parents were very strongly in favor of education. I had known that they had an impact on a lot of people, but people came out of the woodwork who have said, "You know, without your father, I would never have gone to college," very successful people. And so I learned how widespread their educational evangelism really was.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Teacher, Father, Educational

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Holiday, Thinking, Water

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was never the kind of girl who said, "One day, I am going to be a beautiful bride, and I am going to have a family." I wanted to work and support myself and make my parents proud. All I did was work. I did three or four films a year, and felt like I was on a treadmill. Finally I said, "Nothing is exciting to me anymore." So I took six months off, which turned into a year, and said, "God, I don't miss it." That's when all kinds of interesting things crossed my path.

  Sandra Bullock

  Beautiful, Girl, Years

  "She's Strong, She's Sexy, She's Sandra Bullock". Interview with Anne Fletcher, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2009.

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• The last thing I ever want to do is disappoint my parents. If something ever happened to one of my parents, I'd want them to go knowing I made them proud.

  Miley Cyrus

  Knowing, Want, Proud

  "Miley Cyrus: America's Most Famous Girl Grows Up". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 29, 2009.

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