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" Quotes and Sayings About parents

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Teenager Control Interrupt Parent
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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Advice Final Character Parent
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I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learned that you have to be determined. It’s not violence or aggression. It’s sheer determination.

Learn Violence Culture Sheer
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Happy Ignore Invent Children
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My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.

Instilled Parents Sense Condition
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

Relationship Parents Lithium Great
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I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me.
Good Work Parents Influence
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My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Parents Backbone Still Group
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Time Parents Diversity Strength
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I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

Able About Always Anything
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A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Allowed Anyone Child Disrespectful
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

Alcohol Decision Drink Good
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Lagos style is fresh and different. Even with the tailors, they get very innovative with their stuff, with the cuts. When my parents used to make the traditional wares, it was a little bit baggy. But now the tailors are able to infuse the European style, making it slim-fit. Lagos style is different, man. Innovative.

Able Baggy Bit Cuts
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I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.

Born Central Divorced Grandparents
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Yourself Stone Friends Parents
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The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

Classmates Flinch Gesture Afraid
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My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

About Been Ever Me
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We have partnered with hospitals. We do check-ups. We talk to the parents - we educate them - and at the same time, we take the kids to other countries for operations. The goal of the foundation is to build our own cardiac hospitals in Africa, starting in Nigeria.

Africa Build Countries Educate
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Children Created Happy Ignore
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

Children Naive Parents Tangled
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Joy Grieves Fear Secret
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The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Apart Beauty Children Exactly
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

When Child Given His
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Change Childhood Fact Father
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Actor Director Going He
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A simple summary of my life is that my parents worked very hard so that I could have a great education, and I took that education and worked very hard to get where I am. I would like my kids' lives to be exactly the same.

Am Could Education Exactly
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When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.

Actually Adopted Come Get
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Culture Defined Doubts Ever
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My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

Actually Always Child Could
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

Happy Both Children Get
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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

Cherish Community Cultural Nation
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All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.

About Children Concerned Kids
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

Affected Change Divorce Important
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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

Divorced Marriage Especially When
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If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

About Childhood Come Compassion
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This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Believed Could Deeply Enjoyed
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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Between Connection Differentiate Educators
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The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

Best Books Children Come
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I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

Comfort Comfort Zone Fail Good
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

Around Children Does Easter
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

Background Had Neat Parents
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My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.

Afforded Aware Been Brings
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

American Experiences Individuals Parents
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There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

Any Believe Children Illegitimate
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We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

African-American Assume Bad Bad Situation
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Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would?

About American Ask Documentation
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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.

About Brothers Building Courtship
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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Always Found Kid Lot
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On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

Halloween Kids Like Looking
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I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Bath Could Hated Me
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