Parent Quotes
4993 quotes by 3126 authors
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
— Frances Bean Cobain
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If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not…
— Frances Bean Cobain
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Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first. Brands need to do that.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of…
— Neil Strauss
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My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show…
— Roberto Cavalli
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Im pleased to say that in telling them, and especially my parents, they told me that they love me and they support me. And for…
— Ian Thorpe
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Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a…
— Koichi Tanaka
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Once you accept the fact that people have 'individual choices' and they're 'free' to make those choices. Â Free to make choices means without being…
— Jacque Fresco
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Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as…
— Bruce Feiler
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It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the…
— Bruce Feiler
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One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
— Bill Crawford
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I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't…
— Ruth Simmons
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Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
— Herb Ritts
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Parents, you know, can be terrible.
— Diana Vreeland
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The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.
— Zig Ziglar
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The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role…
— Zig Ziglar
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In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who…
— Iris Johansen
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Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and…
— Henri Nouwen
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I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the…
— Virginia Foxx
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