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I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
I also think my dad would be reminding me that kids — more than anything else — need to know their parents… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
The majority of [the troops in Iraq] is that feel they're doing the right thing and their parents who have also made… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I was playing video games LONG before I ever thought about playing football. If it wasn't for my parents making sure that… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
We can begin to address the issue of guns by teaching our young people how to deal with situations in nonviolent ways.… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
My parents' loss was compensated by the birth of my son Aryan and daughter Suhana. I believe they're my parents. In comparison… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
Being a parent is a life sentence. You see, that's why normal people should not have children because if you raise a… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Because adoption meets the needs of children so successfully, and because there have long been waiting lists of couples hoping to adopt… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We may not always recognize it, but government plays a bigger role in our lives than any other single person or institution.… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
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No matter what, your parents are going to worry about you. I had a tour bus, and my mother still thought I… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
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For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love.… — Amy Jenkins Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
America is among the countries the advance countries with the least equality of opportunity, which means that the - while I prospects… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
I don't look back, I just go forward. I'm just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the… — Walter Ciszek Copy Share Image
In homes where high ideals and gospel values are maintained, it is parents, not teachers, who lay the foundation of character and… — Rex D. Pinegar Copy Share Image
I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
I used humor to avoid being picked on as a kid. Or I would try and make my parents laugh, so I… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
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I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image