Parent Quotes - Page 40

• Apple is developing a service called Home Kit that will allow people to operate gadgets like garage openers and thermostats through one app. In related news, please don't tell my parents about this. I can't be explaining this stuff every week.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Home, Apples, People

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• I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents No. 1 priority is the kids education.

  Weili Dai

  Kids, Priorities, Chinese

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• Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

  Ann Douglas

  Children, Struggle, Kids

  "Ann Douglas: How to Cope When Your Child is Suffering With Mental Illness". Interview with Brandie Weikle, thenewfamily.com. January 28, 2015.

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• How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Zero, Children, Kids

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• My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will
  be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor. I am passionate about acting.
  Girls in our family are not allowed to act is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother
  but now no more.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Girl, Mother, Father

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• My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.

  Rohit Shetty

  Grandmother, Bollywood, My Grandmother

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• My parents are opposites who balance each other out.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Opposites, Balance

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• The example my parents set, both in and outside of our household, helped me understand that we all have a specific purpose in life--to give back to society.

  Ilyasah Shabazz

  Giving, Example, Purpose

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• My parents could not be more Italian.

  Edoardo Ponti

  Italian

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• My parents are big Shakespeare fans.

  Ellie Kendrick

  Fans, Bigs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

  Grace Gummer

  Brother, Growing Up, Musician

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• My parents always say I have really good legs. Ive worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.

  Samaire Armstrong

  Legs, Shows, Hard

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• Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

  Samantha Bond

  Loss, Loss Of A Parent

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• Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be reasonable, be brief. Remember that this person will no longer be your spouse, but he or she will continue to be your co-parent, family member and perhaps business partner in certain assets or entities.

  Laura Wasser

  Divorce, Keys, Important

  "Laura Wasser, Celebrity Divorce Lawyer, Shares Top 10 Rules Divorcing Couples Should Follow" by Ashley Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2013.

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• My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So thats how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.

  Dimitar Sasselov

  Hobbies, Telescopes, Astronomers

  "Professor Spotlight: Sasselov on Super-Earths". Interview with Brian C. Zhang, www.thecrimson.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.

  Dimitar Sasselov

  Children, Compare, Offspring

  "How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with.

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Mother, Brother, Mean

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

  Alexa Ray Joel

  Growing Up, Islands, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kids, Madison Avenue is lying to you. Your parents are lying to you. The president is lying to you.

  Al Feldstein

  Lying, Kids, President

  Interview with Jason Heller, tv.avclub.com. March 29, 2007.

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• My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.

  Ato Essandoh

  College, Ghana, Ideas

  "'Copper's' Ato Essandoh: 'I look at Doctor Who'". Interview with Jacqueline Cutler, screenertv.com. June 30, 2013.

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• Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

  Les Lye

  Children, People, Betrayed

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• You become a parent, and your whole life becomes about worrying. You just worry constantly whether they'll be okay. And the idea that I'll be worried forever about them and what they do...I almost have a panic attack when I think about it. I'm worried, and I'm worried about having to worry so goddamn much.

  Drew Magary

  Thinking, Ideas, Worry

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• My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of "Les Miserables" in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from Psycho (1960). My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.

  Dexter Fletcher

  Teacher, Guy, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.

  Emily Rios

  Teacher, Growing Up, Teaching

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• If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.

  Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  Cities, Light, Twenties

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