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I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.
I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!
The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.
There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent.
America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.
I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.
I think it's just having the support of our parents. Knowing that they're going to keep you on the right path and guide you.
My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!
I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
I don't dislike children, I just don't particularly want to be around with them a lot. Problem is, neither do their parents.
As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.
I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old.
The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.
Have we arrived at our own faith and our own path or simply internalized the beliefs of parents, clergy, spouse, or friends?
My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.
Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.
My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.
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 my parents.
We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.
If I just go out and play, the rest will take care of itself. That's what my parents taught me. They haven't been wrong yet.
I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
That's why I get excited over new things, because I didn't have much when I was smaller and my parents could only do so much.
There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.
I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.
You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.
A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.
Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our childrens lives.
Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.
Ever since I became a parent, time moves far too quickly. My vision always feels like I'm wearing giant kaleidoscope-goggles.
Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy.
I always knew I wanted to act, but my parents neverencouraged me. If I was talentless, they didn't want me to be heartbroken.
My parents recognized something in me that they encouraged instead of deflated, and I'll always be grateful to them for that.
I thought running for Congress paled in comparison to being a parent and being a mom - especially a single mom of three kids.
You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.
Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?
Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.
The thing that my parents have always taught me is that beauty comes from the inside, and also that beauty stems from health.
It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.
It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.
Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.
Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.
I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus. "Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec.
My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.
Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service.