Parent Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If a parent wants to choose where their kid goes to school, they can either fork over a whole bunch of money in tuition for private school or they can buy a new house near the school of their choice. And it's driving up property prices in certain key areas. When you stop and think about it, that's kind of ridiculous.

  Amelia Warren Tyagi

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Parents' work has shifted markedly around the world - and that goes for every region. Men in particular have been moving away from farmed-based work, and into industrial and post-industrial work - so they've moved away from the home. Women, likewise, have moved into the paid labor force and away from the home.

  Jody Heymann

  Moving, Home, Men

  "Forgotten Families". Interview with Juliana Bunim, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2006.

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• Let's not ask whether the parents are gay or heterosexual. The important thing is who the best parents are in each individual case.

  Jens Spahn

  Gay, Important, Individual

  "Out on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 23, 2012.

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• I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem and all of our life we try to speak about this problem. My trauma was historical. When I was three or four, all the friends of my parents were survivors of the Holocaust; they spoke a lot about that. My father was hiding during the war, it was something totally present when I was a boy. It is sure that it has made me.

  Christian Boltanski

  Father, War, Believe

  "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

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• The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Transition, Exciting, Remarkable

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Math, Compromise, Wanted

  Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.

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• Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your parents keep living.

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Essence, Want, Return

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

  Neal Boortz

  Children, Government, Abuse

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• By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

  Mardy Grothe

  Children, Trying, Easier

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• Hillary Clinton has a $350 billion plan that she says will make college more affordable. Which has to be better than my parents' plan to make college affordable: 'Be good at sports.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Sports, College, Clinton

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• By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy?

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Unhappy, Attention

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• If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

  Orson Scott Card

  Reading, Kids, Reader

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• 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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• 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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• 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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