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Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Too many people try to please their parents. My parents were Republicans, which is too bad, but they allowed me to be who I wanted to be.
— Grace Slick
I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.
— Andrew Solomon
I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.
— Suzanne Collins
We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.
— Joe Nichols
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
— Quentin Tarantino
As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.
— Etgar Keret
Parents are supposed to protect you, but they seem to be really, really lousy at it.
— Hannah Harrington
Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.
— Rich Lowry
I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
— Charles Barkley
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
— Frank Pittman
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
— Richard Dawkins
Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.
— Jodi Picoult
When you're a teenager,everybody is waiting for you to be something or somebody else-your friends,your parents,your teachers.Sometimes you lose track.
— John David Anderson
I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do. Even with my tattoos, my mom went with me.
— Ashley Tisdale
Our parents got to be kids. Now it's our turn.
— Mary-Kate Olsen
To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.
— Pope Francis
Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!
— Kim Dotcom
Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.
— Joyce Meyer
One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them.
— Timothy Carey
Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance.
— Jed Diamond
And my parents don't want me to tell my grandmother - who, let's be honest, is already in the bottom of the ninth inning, age-wise - that
— Robin Benway
THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.
— Neal Boortz
I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.
— Lily Rabe
When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton
— Peggy Toney Horton
No parent should be denied from their Scouting - their son's Scouting experience simply because those parents happen to be gay.
— Gwen Ifill
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
— Jennifer Lopez
Don't try to understand other people's marriages, darling, even your parents'. You'll be lucky if you understand your own.
— Laura Buzo
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
— Samuel Butler
My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
— O'Shea Jackson Jr.
My parents are really quite strict, so I have to be home at a certain time - even now, at the age of 25.
— Tena Desae
We were very kooky and inventive, and it didn't take long for my parents to realize we should all be auditioning for things.
— Ashley Williams
My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.
— Susana Martinez
I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.
— Molly Ringwald
Parents are to be respected - it Is a commandment from God.
— Monica Johnson
Ohmygod. Did hell just freeze over? - Zoey Redbird when Aphrodite LaFonte tells her parents that Zoey deserves to be leader of the Dark Daughters
— P.C. Cast
Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
— Bill Dedman
Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.
— Lupita Nyong'o
I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.
— Michael Silverblatt
I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.
— Karen Hughes
We don't get to choose our parents," Sunny said. "If we did, some of us might choose never to be born at all.
— Jamie Ford
My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.
— Miranda Cosgrove
When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.
— Loudon Wainwright III
I think my parents knew before I did that I was going to be an actress, because I was doing impressions of Margaret Thatcher at the age of four.
— Michelle Dockery
Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.
— Harold S. Kushner
I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'
— Eric Close
last name's just for people who want you to be impressed by their parents." I
— Matthew Woodring Stover
Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
— Karen DeCrow
you don't have to be dead to haunt. Parents, songs, exes.
— Samantha Hunt
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'
— Maz Jobrani
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
— Callum Keith Rennie
My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together.
— Hayden Panettiere
It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.
— Sara Zarr
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
— Billy Graham
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
— Barbara Bush
I don't dislike children, I just don't particularly want to be around with them a lot. Problem is, neither do their parents.
— Bill Maher
Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
— Foster Friess
My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
— Lloyd Alexander
I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.
— Salman Rushdie
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.
— Jon Krakauer
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.
— Bernadette Devlin
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
When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.
— Rick Nielsen
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
My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
— Uzo Aduba
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
This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that.
— Carroll Bryant
It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.
— Christopher Eccleston
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
Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well.
— Nicole Richie
My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.
— Sienna Miller
Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.
— John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.
— William H. Gray
I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird?
— Paul Rudnick
Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.
— Jesse Ventura
They would never have demanded he be like them; they hardly wanted to be themselves.
— Hanya Yanagihara
I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.
— Peter Capaldi
But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play
and don't play to bring their parents glory. — Yogi Berra
and don't play to bring their parents glory. — Yogi Berra
It is time to teach society on how to be empathetic with people grieving.
— Nathalie Himmelrich
You know, my parents, they raised me to be a fighter.
— Michael Schiavo
..."there's a special kind of hurt in learning that your parents are not the angels or saviors you wish them to be...
— Nadia Hashimi
Kids on the set tend to be a pain, and if they're not, their parents are.
— Timothy Olyphant
The phrase 'Boys will be boys,' reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome.
— Kilroy J. Oldster