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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.
Aristotle
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.
Anne Frank
Advice
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Character
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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.
Anthony Joshua
Learn
Violence
Culture
Sheer
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash
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.
Zach Anner
Instilled
Parents
Sense
Condition
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
Zach Braff
Relationship
Parents
Lithium
Great
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Yvonne Orji
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.
Kobe Bryant
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.
Maya Angelou
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.
David Bowie
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.
Billy Graham
Allowed
Anyone
Child
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
Xavier Becerra
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.
WizKid
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.
Willie Nelson
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.
Henry Rollins
Yourself
Stone
Friends
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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.
Henry Rollins
Classmates
Flinch
Gesture
Afraid
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My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.
David Beckham
About
Been
Ever
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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.
Nwankwo Kanu
Africa
Build
Countries
Educate
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash
Children
Created
Happy
Ignore
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Ogden Nash
Children
Naive
Parents
Tangled
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Francis Bacon
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.
Sydney J. Harris
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!
Fulton J. Sheen
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.
Pat Conroy
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.
Quentin Tarantino
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.
Guy Kawasaki
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.
Gloria Steinem
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.
B. F. Skinner
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.
Condoleezza Rice
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.
Walter Dean Myers
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.
Cesar Chavez
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.
Tom Brady
About
Children
Concerned
Kids
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
Rafael Nadal
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.
Princess Diana
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.
Louise Hay
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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.
Leo Buscaglia
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.
Leo Buscaglia
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.
Temple Grandin
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.
Victoria Beckham
Around
Children
Does
Easter
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
Uma Thurman
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.
Uzodinma Iweala
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.
Uzo Aduba
American
Experiences
Individuals
Parents
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There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.
Rick Warren
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.
Beyonce
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?
Elizabeth Warren
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.
Elizabeth Warren
About
Brothers
Building
Courtship
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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Rodney Dangerfield
Always
Found
Kid
Lot
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On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
Rodney Dangerfield
Halloween
Kids
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Looking
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I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
Rodney Dangerfield
Bath
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Me
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