Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
~By Chastity Bono ~
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
~By Bill Griffith ~
Our parents were musicians.
~By Caroline Corr ~
Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.
~By Edwin Moses ~
My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.
~By Andy Dick ~
I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.
~By Ashley Olsen ~
But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
~By Barbara Coloroso ~
I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.
~By Roger Moore ~
We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
~By Major R. Owens ~
I don't think my parents know what I do.
~By John Malkovich ~
It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
Happy Days was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show.
~By Tom Bosley ~
My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
~By Mark Hoppus ~
My parents wanted me to go to law school.
~By Sasha Alexander ~
Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune.
~By Gordon Getty ~
My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.
~By Erika Slezak ~
I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions.
~By Shannon Elizabeth ~
When my parents separated, I was very grateful.
~By Christopher Durang ~
I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.
~By Faith Ford ~
On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.
~By Kim Kardashian ~
My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.
~By Kaley Cuoco ~
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
~By Jim Morrison ~
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
~By Margaret Mead ~
If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.
~By January Jones ~
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
~By Adelbert von Chamisso ~
The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.
~By Michael Bergin ~
My parents love each other. They work through their problems.
~By Brian Austin Green ~
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
~By Alan Bennett ~
My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
~By Dionne Warwick ~
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
~By Roger Bannister ~
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
~By Freddy Fender ~
My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books.
~By Mathias Rust ~
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.
~By Ernest Istook ~
I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.
~By Kate Hudson ~
Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.
~By Deana Carter ~
I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.
~By Natalie Cole ~
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.
~By Anna Friel ~
My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
~By Lloyd Alexander ~
Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.
~By James Blunt ~
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
~By Ernest Istook ~
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
~By Jim Bishop ~
Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.
~By John Walters ~
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
~By John Doolittle ~
And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?
~By Robert Sternberg ~
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
~By Woody Allen ~
We are the people our parents warned us about.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.
~By Bob Filner ~
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
~By Judith Viorst ~
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
~By Maria Monk ~
Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy.
~By Moon Unit Zappa ~
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
~By T. Berry Brazelton ~
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.
~By Gregory Hines ~
The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.
~By Mike DeWine ~
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
~By Alan Dundes ~
But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20.
~By David Axelrod ~
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
~By Nancy Friday ~
The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.
~By Geena Davis ~
I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.
~By Kelly Preston ~
Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.
~By Daisy Fuentes ~
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe.
~By Dave Rowntree ~
It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.
~By Gina Philips ~
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.
~By Ziyi Zhang ~
The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.
~By Andrew Shue ~
I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.
~By Giovanni Ribisi ~
I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.
~By Ella R. Bloor ~
I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.
~By Martin Lewis Perl ~
We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.
~By Peter Chernin ~
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.
~By John Woolman ~
Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.
~By Mel Carnahan ~
Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
~By Thomas Willis ~
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family.
~By Mark Goddard ~
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the idea unit.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
~By Muriel Spark ~
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.
~By Ron Reagan ~
I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.
~By Jennifer Garner ~
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
~By Robert MacNeil ~
I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.
~By Emmett Kelly ~
My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.
~By Andy Partridge ~
My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
~By Nastassja Kinski ~
Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
~By Barry Humphries ~
Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
~By James Meade ~
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
~By Iain Duncan Smith ~
Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it.
~By Sue Johanson ~
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