Best Our Parents Wisdom
270 Our Parents quotes by 230 unique authors
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The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around…
— Barry Lyga
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We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.
— Cassandra Clare
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Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and…
— Julian Barnes
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As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.
— Neil Gaiman
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
— Alain de Botton
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Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you, we lie for…
— Lionel Shriver
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We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold…
— John Conyers
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The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths…
— Alice Miller
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Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our…
— Michael Josephson
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We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.
— Bill Drayton
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My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it…
— Tom Hollander
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I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children,…
— Elton John
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Our parents got divorced when I was 8 or 9.
— Unknown Author
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Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
— Mamie Gummer
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We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states…
— Martin O'Malley
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When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually…
— Pico Iyer
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What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school,…
— Philippe Petit
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that…
— Abbi Jacobson
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We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents,…
— Marc Forne Molne
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Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
— Barry Gibb
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The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents,…
— Jose Serrano
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There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public…
— Steven Chu
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Our parents have always encouraged us to be independent and dream big.
— Jenna Bush
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So, look, in order to move our country forward, we have to do the things our parents and grandparents did. They believed enough in our…
— Martin O'Malley
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