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My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.
— Win Butler
It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents.
— Judy Carter
When I look in the mirror I see my parents' sacrifices being honored. I see the love from which I was created and the power of the human spirit.
— Zulay Henao
It started with a simple ring,
You became husband and wife,
You progressed to being parents
And you're still best friends for life. — John Walter Bratton
You became husband and wife,
You progressed to being parents
And you're still best friends for life. — John Walter Bratton
Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.
— L. Tom Perry
I don't ever remember being able to debate with my parents. Even though I thought of myself as a very bright kid, I couldn't be vocal in that way.
— Mindy Kaling
Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs.
— Neneh Cherry
I don't see that as being good for America - that the country pits parents against everybody else.
— Amelia Warren Tyagi
Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?
— E.M. Delafield
The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world
— Dean Cavanagh
My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
— J. Cole
I am a father, and I know the feel of being a father. Why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also be happy parents?
— Juan Pablo Galavis
Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.
— John Bishop
The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
— Natalie Portman
Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.
— Michelle M. Pillow
I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known.
— Brendon Urie
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.
— Wendy Wasserstein
It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.
— M. Russell Ballard
I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.
— Molly Crabapple
I always loved being in London and being near my parents.
— Sophie Winkleman
I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.
— Mariella Frostrup
Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on.
— David Foster Wallace
It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.
— Anna C. Salter
A great challenge for parents is how to prepare themselves for being successful in advising children.
— Eraldo Banovac
I try to get back for every holiday to see my parents. Love being home and with my family.
— Antoniette Costa
The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
— Douglas Kennedy
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
It's not always easy being her daughter.'
I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are. — Sarah Dessen
I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are. — Sarah Dessen
It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
How to advise parents for being successful in raising children still
remains an important unsolved problem. — Eraldo Banovac
remains an important unsolved problem. — Eraldo Banovac
To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled.
— Colin Quinn
My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
— Veruschka Von Lehndorff
I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.
— Dawn Fraser
My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be.
— Diana Lopez
My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked - just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humor.
— Shia Labeouf
Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.
— Danielle Steel
Not a word. Being a hypocrite is the only way people who were once teenagers can be parents without going out of their damn minds.
— DiscontentedWinter
My parents are proud of me being an actor.
— Matthew Lewis
In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.
— Beryl Markham
I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star.
— Shania Twain
I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge.
— Ansel Elgort
Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.
— Gordon Neufeld
I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know?
— Kenneth Logan
If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
— Rachel Johnson
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
— Robert Smith
I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.
— Tammin Sursok
Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like to be black.
— Wanda Sykes
Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.
— Alice Dreger
When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'
— Kevin Harrington
Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
— Les Wexner
My children did not go through a stage of being rude to their parents. I'm sorry if that sounds incredible.
— Judith Martin
When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.
— David Suzuki
You're being parental', I said. 'Go find that squid'.
— Daryl Gregory
I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.
— Marlee Matlin
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
— T-Pain
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.
— Orson Scott Card
When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.
— Stephen Furst
If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.
— Adam Giles
Parents test our patience more than anyone else ... Being around them keeps you in check ... that's what keeps you humbled.
— Nouman Ali Khan
If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.
— Warren Farrell
One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.
— Anne Roiphe
I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
— Stephen King
My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.
— James Denton
Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested in how they feel and in their point of view.
— Haim G. Ginott
Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.
— Danica McKellar
I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.
— Charles Barkley
Being Jewish means loving something that's gone. Your parents, your grandparents, the place they came from. Jerusalem itself. Creation.
— Michael Davidow
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.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
— Mignon McLaughlin
My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
— Haley Joel Osment
I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn't the be-all and end-all.
— Marie Helvin
I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.
— Craig Ferguson
My thoughts turned back to my parents and their apparent penchant for being big ol' liars.
— Rachel Hawkins
The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6 — Seneca.
- De Ira 2.21.6 — Seneca.
Nice try, mister, but being cute won't save you.
— C.J. Milbrandt
My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.
— Jenny Mollen
A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.
— Hyman Rickover
Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.
— Lily Rabe
But who could teach daughters how to fly? Parents were by definition earthbound, grub eaters, feet in their own coffins, by dint of being parents.
— Gregory Maguire
You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.
— Mallory Ortberg