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I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.
I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.
Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.
A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.
When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways.
The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.
Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore.
Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.
Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.
We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.
Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.
I've given her bragging rights. That's something my mum's definitely big on, like any African parent. Like any parent.
On your birthday thank your parents and celebrate with them. They are the reason you are here and it is their day too.
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
Parents, whether or not we believe in a deity, know that to witness a child's mind searching for meaning is a miracle.
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
I'm not sure if my parents had me because they loved me, or because they wanted someone to watch their other children.
My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - dont depend on other people, do it yourself.
Parents test our patience more than anyone else...Being around them keeps you in check...that's what keeps you humbled.
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.
I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.
I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!
I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.
You take responsibility for your children but you're not always the taxi driver and that doesn't make you a bad parent.
My parents always say I have really good legs. Ive worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.
I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
I never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you can't have it.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
It's a dilemma for every modern parent - how to keep children safe on social media without monitoring their every post.
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.
I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.
My parents never prevented me from doing anything, but they didn't have the knowledge of the arts that Mrs. Ranger had.
Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.
This is a Happy Birthday card, Made with lots of love by me It's to a Very Important Parent A VIP... ...and you are she
Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.
Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.
You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.
When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.