Parent Quotes - Page 33

• My parents always put more of an emphasis on who I was as opposed to what I achieved. They were never like, "You won that! You did this!" It was all about, "You've got a good heart. You're a good friend. You're a good daughter." So that other stuff in no way defines my sense of self.

  Emma Stone

  Daughter, Heart, Good Friend

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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• When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says."

  Jonah Hill

  Growing Up, Writing, Play

  "Jonah Hill "Allen Gregory" Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 29, 2011.

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• I kind of was shoveled onto a boat at 11 and went to England. I didn't have any parent watching over me. It was very free and may have been a bit of a scary time for me, but I really don't remember much about the voyage apart from playing ping-pong a lot with a couple friends.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Couple, Scary, Ping Pong

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• There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Interview with Ricky Young, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Choices, Way, My Family

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Every day after school, for three hours a day, I would sell those pralines on the street corner. I was just eight years old. I'd bring the money home to my parents and say, "This is just the beginning."

  Richard Simmons

  Home, School, Eight

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I’ve met kids who haven’t had the best of parents but because they had something in them, or they had somebody at school help develop them, they turned out fine.

  Common

  School, Kids, Helping

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. November 8, 2014.

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• It's a crazy time right now with kids. They are so much, more savvy than even their parents are. They are handing down their devices to their parents. They are giving their parents the old iPad in exchange for the new one. It's a whole different world nowadays and they are in control and in charge of technology. It's scary but at the same time it's exciting. There are a lot of choices for them.

  Tyra Banks

  Crazy, Kids, Technology

  "Model to Mogul and Beyond". Interview with Ty-Ron Mayes, westeastmag.com. October 27, 2012.

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• My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Mom, Artist, Guitar

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I used humor to avoid being picked on as a kid. Or I would try and make my parents laugh, so I wouldn't get in trouble. But as a kid, I would watch Flip Wilson and I would memorize his whole routine, listen to Bill Cosby's records constantly, Steve Martin, Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball. I just drank that stuff up and loved it.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Kids, Laughing, Trying

  "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I think we think that parenthood is confined to the country of mothers, but I think a lot of the men I've spoken to and the men who have read my books - I've been surprised by this actually - have a fierce attachment to being parents and to being fathers. And just as we, a lot of women I know, want this, men too want to pass down what they have to pass down.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Country, Mother, Father

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A sense of self has to be sought in the parade of images and products; and this culture becomes the main determinant upon morality, beliefs, and purpose, usurping more and more territory that formerly belonged to parents, teachers, community, priests, and politics alike.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Teacher, Self, Community

  Jeremy Seabrook (1978). “What Went Wrong?: Why Hasn't Having More Made People Happier?”, Pantheon

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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