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Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies.
I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.
Your parents are supposed to tell you to make decisions that are gonna help you and that'll have a positive effect on your life and your well-being.
My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.
Happy is the child who happens in upon his parents from time to time to see him on his knees, or going aside regularly, to keep times with the Lord.
Philanthropy has always been something that I've been kind of interested in because I think it was instilled at a very young age through my parents.
I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.
Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness.
If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.
I thought when I... made my first big mistakes in public that that was really going to be the end of me. My parents cried. My friends were desperate.
The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten
Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?
If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.
When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.
To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.
Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Most people who have wealth came from nothing or their parents came from nothing. And this idea that anyone can grow wealth is central to what we do.
I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.
I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.
Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom 'Roseanne' after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote a racist tweet.
As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.
My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.
You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet!
It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.
Being a parent is one of the hardest jobs there is. It's one of the greatest things, too, but it's also probably the hardest thing anybody ever does.
Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.
For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.
It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.
When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.
Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.
Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.
Losing a parent makes you realize how temporary everything is - you're looking through someone's whole life in a drawer, and they're very simply gone.
I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.
When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.
I think I'm a good father. As a parent, you have the responsibility to create a foundation for your children so that they can meet all the challenges.
It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.
As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.
I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents.
We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.
Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.
How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!
When I see a salt and pepper standing next to a bottle of ketchup, to me that's obviously a parent and two children, you know? Isn't it for everybody?
I swore that I wouldn't be one of those parents who leaves a Bugaboo pram parked in the communal entry hall. Well guess what, ours is there right now.
When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.
When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.