Parent Quotes - Page 38

• Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all.

  Pythagoras

  Hero, Men, Firsts

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• I always knew I wanted to act, but my parents neverencouraged me. If I was talentless, they didn't want me to be heartbroken.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Heartbroken, Want, Ifs

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• Giving a man a fish feeds him for one meal. Teaching a man to fish feeds him for a lifetime. As parents and gospel instructors, you and I are not in the business of distributing fish; rather, our work is to help our children learn 'to fish.'

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Teaching, Men

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• I want to do something to help those who lost their parents, who lost their mothers and their fathers. Those are our people. Those are our children. Those are our parents.

  Michael Jackson

  Mother, Children, Father

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• How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?

  Bill Moyers

  Children, Helping, Bliss

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.147, Anchor

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• What does "success" mean to you? Was Mother Teresa a "success"? Was your favorite teacher a "success"? Were your parents, grandparents, your pastor, your best friends a "success"? Success is as personal as a fingerprint or DNA; you must define it for yourself.

  Bob Teague

  Mother, Teacher, Mean

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• Our parents are our first oppressors.

  Jerry Rubin

  Firsts, Oppressors

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• Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mother, Evil, Vices

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1858). “Gems from Spurgeon; or, Extracts from the note-book of a non-professional reporter”, p.75

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• I'm a parent, and I regulate what my kids listen to. I don't need the government to be the parent. If I'm a crappy parent, then I need the government involved.

  Howard Stern

  Kids, Government, Needs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I was in the fourth grade - the only American in my class - when our teacher wrote the words "America" and "Atomic Bomb" in white chalk on the blackboard. All forty Japanese children turned around to stare at me. My country had done something unforgivable and I had to take responsibility for it, all by myself. I desperately wanted to dig a hole under my desk, to escape my classmates' mute disbelief and never have to face them again.

  Linda Hoaglund

  Country, Teacher, Children

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think the need to go on stage speaks to some sort of a profound psychological deficit, but something that happened when you were a kid. Or something your parents did.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Kids, Thinking, Profound

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• I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny pretty things. I stay in the moment, because when you do that the hype goes away.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Hype, Stuff, Way

  "Interview: Zoe Kravitz – ‘Yelling To The Sky’ (Opens In NYC Tomorrow, 12/14)". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home which was not Sabbath observant. I think my parents thought the whole Jewish thing was a phase.

  Erica Brown

  Home, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.

  Gaspar Noe

  Sex, Talking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way. They have believed in my dreams despite how steep the mountain has been.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Dream, Careers, Mountain

  Interview with Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. August 3, 2012.

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• Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.

  Dori Berinstein

  Growing Up, Taken, Ucla

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish or Muslim, there are certain rules and regulations. But my parents instilled in me the importance of defining God for yourself.

  Vera Farmiga

  Christian, Home, Rules And Regulations

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• Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.

  Boots Riley

  Father, Thinking, Ideas

  "Boots Riley Is Sorry to Bother You". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 3, 2011.

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• Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

  Terry McMillan

  Children, Vices, Vice Versa

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.

  Terry McMillan

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My parents want me to be a lawyer or something like that. Something steady. That's always their main concern as parents: "Oh, you need a salary, you need life insurance, why aren't you having kids?" But in the end, they're happy about it.

  Thu Tran

  Kids, Salary, Needs

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• People are interested in family traditions, and I think a lot of families can benefit from some of the ways that my parents dealt with the challenges of raising four kids.

  Ralph Nader

  Kids, Thinking, People

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• More and more families today are sending both parents into the workforce - t's become the norm, it's what we now expect. The overwhelming majority of us do it because we think it will make our families more secure. But that's not how things have worked out.

  Amelia Warren Tyagi

  Thinking, Majority, Today

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• With both parents in the workforce 100 percent of the time, there's just no way to care for somebody on the side - either somebody has to take time off work or somebody has to pay someone to provide that care. In either it represents a big financial blow, and families just don't have the flexibility to deal with it.

  Amelia Warren Tyagi

  Blow, Care, Pay

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The point is that families today are spending their money no more foolishly than their parents did. And yet they're five times more likely to go bankrupt, and three times more likely to lose their homes. Families are going broke on the basics - housing, health insurance, and education. These are the kind of bills that you can't just trim around the edges in the event of a downturn.

  Amelia Warren Tyagi

  Home, Events, Three

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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