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My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.
Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.
Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying.
What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.
Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.
What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.
We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.
I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.
Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents.
Schoolwork came kind of natural to me, but when I brought home a grade that wasn't up to par, my parents let me know it.
Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.
The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.
A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.
I had good parents. Nothing terrible happened. But I had the feeling that they kind of protected me from reality somehow.
When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.
My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
My parents went through hell and back. They came to America with suitcases and a family of seven and $250, and that's it.
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.
No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized.
It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.
If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.
You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.
I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.
My parents are both definitely supportive of my career.They are both big fans of rap. They are really what influenced me.
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts.
I hope I'm as graceful and gracious as [my parents] are. It's hard for me to project how I'm gonna be if I make it to 86.
A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.
When I was a kid, we called every teacher, every parent - anyone over the age of 20, it seemed - 'Mr. or Mrs. so-and-so.'