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The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.
— George Whitefield
Rock is always about rebelling against the parents.
— D'arcy Wretzky
My parents got married when I was 12.
— Joel Kinnaman
When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me ... and no one showed up.
— Rodney Dangerfield
I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.
— Catherine O'Hara
I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever laughed at them.
— Kurt Vonnegut
You think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're going to get smarter as you get older.
— Charles Barkley
Parents are supposed to protect you, but they seem to be really, really lousy at it.
— Hannah Harrington
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
— Bill Ayers
I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe.
— Rolf Harris
One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.
— Jon Voight
Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.
— Gillian Flynn
Sheesh, one hot girl walks into the house and all trust vanishes.
-Vane Weston — Shannon Messenger
-Vane Weston — Shannon Messenger
When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
— Patrick Chan
Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.
— Warren Farrell
My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
— Akhil Sharma
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
— Richard Dawkins
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
— P.L. Travers
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.
— Philip Pullman
Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.
— Thomas Hardy
I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.
— Linda Vester
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.
My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.
— Bill Callahan
The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!
— Ken Bruen
My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.
— Claire Danes
I began absolutely non-stop tormenting my parents, begging them on a daily basis to move there.
— Taylor Swift
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
— Maurice Sendak
My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.
— David Beckham
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.
— William H. Gray
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
— Ben Marcus
Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well.
— Nicole Richie
My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.
— Jason Mraz
My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.
— Regina Doman
Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.
— Raj Kapoor
My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.
— Joel Burns
When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.
— Hanya Yanagihara
Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.
— J.G. Ballard
You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
— Rodney Atkins
Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
— Barry Gibb
You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.
— Tommy Bowden
Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.
— Thomas Bernhard
She cried over the messed up messy mess of her life, over her parents' failures and her own shortcomings.
— Stephanie Bond
Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.
— Ken Livingstone
giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow.
— Richard Dawkins
Clarity and focus doesn't always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.
— Shannon L. Alder
My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and they all had pugs.
— Brigid Berlin
I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.
— Kristen Stewart
They handed over spider plants in terra-cotta, six-packs, books, bottles of wine. Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners.
— Lauren Groff
That just goes to show you that parents can do all they can for you, but at the end of the day it's up to you whether you listen or not.
— Shareef Jaudon
I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.
— Ally Condie
In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all..
— Wm. Paul Young
If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.
— Frank McCourt
Sometimes I think I'm an alien that accidentally fell off the mother ship, destined to wander among clueless earthling parents for all eternity.
— Sarah Ockler
Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.
— Julia Sawalha
From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents.
— Caroline Pratt
My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.
— Haley Reinhart
Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.
— Fred G. Gosman
We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.
— Christopher Eccleston
It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.
— Linda Hunt
What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force.
— Thomas Perez
Once parents started scheduling play, they then began observing play, which led to involving themselves in play.
— Julie Lythcott-Haims
My first job paid well for a young attorney. I was making over $50,000, which was more than either of my parents had ever made. I thought I was rich.
— Marco Rubio
I leave my parents here behind
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell
I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell
I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton
My parents love each other. They work through their problems.
— Brian Austin Green
I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.
— Molly Ringwald
Putting one's parents out to pasture in a nursing home has very deep historical roots in Western Europe.
— Francis Fukuyama
Children are our future. Unfortunately, we are their past.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.
— Daphne Oz
Whenever I have a play or opening or anything going on in my career, my parents always come up and see it.
— Andre Holland
I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.
— Robert De Niro
My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real.
— Megan Follows
I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.
— Mikaela Shiffrin
Our parents are always an important part of our inner life.
— Eraldo Banovac
You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
— A.S. Byatt
My parents didn't play golf.
— Amy Alcott
The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.
— Bob Proctor
I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.
— Liya Kebede
Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.
— Leslye Walton
The streets was basically my parents.
— Bernard Hopkins
Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
— Sam Rockwell
That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
— Barbara Mertz
Poor parents tend to follow[ ... ] a strategy of "accomplishment of natural growth".
— Malcolm Gladwell
School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.
— Calvin Trillin