Parent Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• I don't have formal training at all, but I did grow up around design. My parents both flipped homes. A typical weekend for us was walking through model home units. I loved walking through interesting floor plans and seeing different design aesthetics.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Growing Up, Home, Weekend

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.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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• I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.

  Harrison Ford

  Children, Games, League

  "42 Interview with Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman & Brian Helgeland". www.moviesonline.ca.

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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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• Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me.

  Daniel Handler

  Boys, Childhood, Stories

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I was never told to "Get up, get out there, get a job." It was never a thing either parent ever said I had to do. It was what I wanted to do. I think I was very interested in being away from them as much as possible. Employment was great for that.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Thinking, Employment

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• God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sisters I grew up with, the schools I went to, there was this influence upon me which was the faith, in the concrete. I accepted it, I questioned it, I grew up with it, and in the end, as a mature adult, I continue to accept it.

  George Coyne

  Brother, School, Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Understood

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• I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

  John Waters

  Running, New York, Weekend

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe.

  John Waters

  Running, Fun, Long

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• It's up to the parents to watch their kids and make sure their kids aren't doing any crazy drugs. I always blame the parents. When their kids are doing something crazy, I blame the parents.

  Juicy J

  Crazy, Kids, Drug

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• I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very strong work ethic and that's put a more conservative, "save for a rainy day" mentality into me.

  Lemar

  Strong, Rainy Day, Class

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer is like, and you did this long theatrical performance instead, and I'm very disappointed."

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Careers, Long

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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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 think my parents gave me a unique name and I have created this unique lifestyle that makes me who I am; it's a cool way of living.

  Urijah Faber

  Unique, Thinking, Who I Am

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

  Kevin Costner

  Kids, Want, Moments

  "Kevin Costner Talks MCFARLAND, USA, What Makes a Memorable Sports Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2015.

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• Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

  Hugh Blair

  Sports, Pain, Selfish

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• True love is the parent of humility.

  William Ellery Channing

  Love, Humility, True Love

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• It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things, along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.

  Kaley Cuoco

  Sports, Dream, Art

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, there were a few things in the Spider-Man comics that I thought were really interesting. There's this story about Peter's parents and where he came from, and I thought that it was really interesting to explore the emotional consequence of someone whose parents had left them, at a very young age.

  Marc Webb

  Men, Emotional, Interesting

  "Emma Stone and Marc Webb Talk THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, Honoring the Marvel Icon, and Why Andrew Garfield is the Perfect Spider-Man". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Bird, Littles

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.

  John Adams

  Education, Mother, Children

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.75, Penguin

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• I don't know that any woman could ever not think about that at some point - even making the choice not to do it and getting to the place of peace of choosing not to be a parent, there would have still been some struggle in between. I'm not a man but I don't think it would occupy their minds as much.

  Naomi Watts

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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