Parent Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Where are all the sour patch parents?

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Patches

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

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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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.

  John Waters

  Thinking, Proud, Film

  Source: www.timeout.com

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