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You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face. — Pico Iyer

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children
of any age
grow up and become peers. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

The parents' perceptions all too often become the reality. In other words, who they believe they are raising is who they will raise. — L.R. Knost

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent. — Helen McCrory

I've become one of those parents who demand their children go to the bathroom. "But I don't have to." "Well, go anyway. — Jim Gaffigan

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. — Ama Ata Aidoo

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford. — Dave Barry

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system. — Quentin Tarantino

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents. — Criss Jami

Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents. — Nelson Mandela

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had. — Louise Hart

In growing older, we become our parents. — Julien Green

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress. — Gena Rowlands

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them. — Douglas Coupland

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time. — Neil Gaiman

I suppose a child's first obligation is to become a stranger to his parents. — Judith Kelman

Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents. — Thomas Lickona

A dream is a seed.
Vision plants it.
Imagination nurtures growth.
Opportunities create blooms.
Thoughts become things! — Donna McGoff

All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha. — Gautama Buddha

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

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval. — Phil Donahue

The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids' linguistic abilities become — John Medina

What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents. — Merrit Malloy

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents. — Hyman Rickover

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead. — William Landay

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 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

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. — Mignon McLaughlin

My parents wanted me to become a national athlete. — Joe Taslim

The wants of the grandparents has become the needs of the parents and the rights of the children. — R.K. Koslowsky

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think. — Carrie Coon

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

I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my parents, I'll often cry. I become too emotional. — Ana Ivanovic

When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult. — Mason Cooley

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton — Peggy Toney Horton

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. — Henry Ward Beecher

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver. — Murray Walker

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be — David Bly

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer. — Gabriel Macht

It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth. — H.W. Charles

My parents, worried that I might become popular at school, got me a book of puns at an impressionable age. — Alexandra Petri

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. — Phil Donahue

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education. — Sandra Day O'Connor

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me. — Otto Schily

When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer. — Michael Mina

There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we decided to become parents. — Brene Brown

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

Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult. — Michel Houellebecq