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It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents. — Anthony Horowitz

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

Parents are labelling, criticizing and reproaching the child on any account — Sunday Adelaja

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts. — Bill Walton

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college. — Gwyneth Paltrow

The voice in my head has a stutter, and that's really annoying. D-D-D-Dave Dave. What? K-K-K-Kill your p-p-p-parents. L-L-L-Loa ... Write it down! — Dave Attell

You think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're going to get smarter as you get older. — Charles Barkley

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

Our parents are the primal source. We make our own lives, but our origin stories are theirs. They go back with us to the beginning of time. — Cheryl Strayed

The outcome of insane parents is either a murderer or an intellectual. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

The best which entailed from parents to children, is the good behavior. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

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

My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony. — Anchee Min

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators. — Daryl Gregory

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework. — Sara Paretsky

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

There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is. — Andre Gide

Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn. — Thomas Hardy

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top. — Emeril Lagasse

I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married. — Camila Alves

The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old. — Peter Jacobsen

It is a testament to my parents that they never reacted negatively to the four-year-long pride parade that marched through their house. — Tina Fey

I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con. — Matt Bomer

Cool is a weapon created by creeps to obliterate the morals that good parents instill in their children. — Greg Gutfeld

Let's not ask whether the parents are gay or heterosexual. The important thing is who the best parents are in each individual case. — Jens Spahn

From a child I was taught to forgive and forget, but it's difficult to forget these things, the loss of parents, of children and grandchildren. — Ann Leckie

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

My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just kept challenging me and challenging me. — Abby Wambach

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid! — Jordin Sparks

She kissed me on the cheek, and my mom sang Theresa's name from the open front door. She loves Theresa. I think she loves me more when I'm with her. — Kenneth Logan

It comes from exercising care in the choice of parents. — Robert A. Heinlein

I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way. — Summer Glau

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event. — Erich Fromm

My parents insisted that we should always be respectful, never forget where we come from and that we are part of the challenges facing our people — Patrice Motsepe

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. — Yogi Berra

Children are responsible individuals in embryo. They have ultimate rights of their own and are not simply the playthings of their parents. — Milton Friedman

I am a member of the 'sandwich' generation, that group that must simultaneously care for elderly parents and support children. — Sandra Tsing Loh

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents. — Shinichi Suzuki

They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die. — David Leavitt

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment. — James Wolk

If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent. — Kenneth Logan

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. — Marian Wright Edelman

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all. — Bernadette Devlin

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married. — George Bernard Shaw

The only thing I said to my parents when I was a teenager was Hang up, I got it! — Carol Leifer

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past. — Miguel De Unamuno

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home. — William Temple

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. — Anne Lamott

I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way. — RJ Mitte

Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time. — Dakota Johnson

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert. — David Guetta

Parents just concentrate on the thing that drives them nuts and all the other good stuff you do goes out the window. — Joan Bauer

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. — Maurice Sendak

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. — William H. Gray

My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic. — Regina Doman

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

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

The grown-ups, or maybe I should say the parents, ate in the dining room. — Ann Darby

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

The streets was basically my parents. — Bernard Hopkins

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children. — Donna Rice Hughes

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

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

What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force. — Thomas Perez

I think it's the human condition to be frequently embarrassed by your parents. — Ivanka Trump

I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles. — Molly Ringwald

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. — Plato

It was always the view of my parents ... that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people. — Ian McEwan

My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can. — Uzo Aduba

I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents. — James Bobin

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren. — Mary Calderone

Why the hell don't kids call their parents anymore? Why don't they answer their phones? Why all this crazy texting shit? — David Baldacci

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

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

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil. — Arto Lindsay

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

What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all. — Rodney Dangerfield

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

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future. — Stephen King

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

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

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.

What cannot be communicated to the [m]other cannot be communicated to the self. — John Bowlby

She cried over the messed up messy mess of her life, over her parents' failures and her own shortcomings. — Stephanie Bond

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 weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school. — Bill Callahan