Parent Quotes

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If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse. — Richard Dawkins
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the… — Alice Miller
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an… — Condoleezza Rice
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until… — Stephen Covey
The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents. — James Madison
...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with… — Robert Kennedy
It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I… — Washington Irving
When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval. — Jeff Beck
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again:… — James Agee
We are not known by our bank balances or who our parents are. It is ultimately we who have to prove ourselves. It is not… — Anita Ratnam
Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of the moral… — Max Meyer
My brother is gay and my parents don't care, as long as he marries a doctor. — Elayne Boosler
Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of… — Mary Hunter Austin
Ashton jumped in and said, 'I want you to know that I don't take coming into childrens lives lightly'. That was within the first couple… — Demi Moore
I want to have a big family. My parents have been together for 36 years, and that is what I want. I am in that… — Gisele Bundchen
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and… — P.J. O'Rourke
The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was… — Alexander MacLaren
Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were… — Lois Wyse
We can't go on forever with 11 million people living in this country in the shadows in an illegal status. We cannot forever have children… — John McCain

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