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Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.
I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.
Having a kid is hard to explain, but when you talk to another parent, you have mutual understanding of what that does to you as a person.
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.
If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.
Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.
I'm a single parent, a working mother, an executive, and an author. My greatest accomplishment will be to raise three wonderful children.
Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.
The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
Nothing reassures parents more than surrounding their kids with the kind of guys who have a lot of weapons and nothing to do on weekdays.
When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."
My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never go over your monthly allowance.
I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.
I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics.
I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldnt do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, Wow, they never told me no!
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.
I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.
My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.
The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.
As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.
The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
If it's your child, it's different. You don't care about those things. It's so minor. You become a parent and nothing else really matters.
I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.
As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door.
Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors.
[My parents when I was a kid] would go, "It's a nice hot day. Why are you inside watching the TV?" And you go, "Well, 'cause it's better?"
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.
There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need to look into.
I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'
Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents.
The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.
I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.
We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.
I still dream about my parents and have done every night for 10 years, and I wake up either crying or having to remember that they're gone.
I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.
In Georgia, rednecks are just wolves in wolf clothing. In Detroit, you don't know who's a redneck until you go home and meet their parents.
There are accidental parents, but there are no accidental children. There are illegitimate parents, but there are no illegitimate children.
All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.
My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm really proud of that.
My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like "I don't care what MTV says you are.".