Parents Told Quotes
34 quotes by 31 authors
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Though she doesn't remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother resorted to passing…
— Mila Kunis
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My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.
— Billy Corgan
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A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me…
— Jessica Capshaw
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My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from…
— Ahmet Zappa
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Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us!…
— Richard Bach
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My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.'…
— Daniel H. Pink
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My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else. And it never…
— Mike Huckabee
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I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.
— Greg Egan
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and…
— Gail Devers
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My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me…
— John Lewis
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I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I…
— Allison Williams
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I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.
— Adam Sandler
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My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing…
— Denise Juneau
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When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your…
— Thomas Friedman
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Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be…
— Joan Jett
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How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized…
— Michael Jordan
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I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.
— Greg Kinnear
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I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn't do anything because they feared going into a…
— Queen Latifah
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My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day…
— Amy Tan
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I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I…
— Tullian Tchividjian
Who Wrote These Parents Told Quotes
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