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I've told them they have to support England and if they don't, they won't be getting a ticket. [on his parents watching England]
Sajid Mahmood

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Arthur Rimbaud

Oliver Letwin has insulted the parents, teachers and pupils of every state school in the country.
Stephen Twigg

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
Winston Churchill

Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
Roald Dahl

I didn't understand why he wasn't returning my calls [when her parents split]
Nicole Richie

We are very much just parents together, although we have moments of being sexy and fun and I do find him [Pitt] sexy.
Angelina Jolie

We will provide a right for parents to request to work flexible hours when their child is young.
Stephen Byers

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
Judith Martin

Not being born to parents who were accountants was probably my biggest mistake.
Chris Eubank

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who (The True-Born Englishman)
Daniel Defoe

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore Vidal

'I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.'
Shirley Manson

My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.
Fernando Alonso

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
Doris Day

Being an MP is the sort of job all working class parents want for their children - clean, indoor and no heavy lifting.
Dianne Abbott

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.
John Mortimer

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
Michelle Pfeiffer

From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash
Sophie Tucker

I find it easy to understand why the likes of Sarah-Louise end up going astray. Everybody hits that stage where the more your parents try to keep you close, the more you want to break free. But I was nowhere near as bad as Sarah-Louise is, although my mum might disagree.
Tina O'Brien

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou

The parents were abed and sleeping. The clock on the wall ticked loudly and lazily, as if it had time to spare
Henry Jackson Van Dyke

Fortunately, my parents always encouraged me to be grateful that I was healthy, and stand up and be proud and carry myself with dignity.
Susan Anton

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash

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

Hi, we are Sum 41 and we're just something your parents will never understand
Deryck Whibley

My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.
Laura Linney

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Benjamin Spock

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
Eric Hoffer

One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.
Tiger Woods

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles DeLint

Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.
Peter Ustinov

I don't think my parents know what I do.
John Malkovich

My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
Kelly Ripa

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
Philip Roth

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence Peter

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Michael Jordan

Parents and teachers are not up in arms about minors buying lads mags simply because they do not
Piers Hernu

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney Harris

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.
Greg Norman

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R Buckminster Fuller

If I had to choose between wealth and a united family, I would 1,000 per cent have preferred my parents to stay together.
Minnie Driver

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
Fannie Flagg

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy Graham

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
Jim Carrey

It certainly seems contradictory of the [local] council to be encouraging parents to stop using their cars to take children to school but at the same time taking so long about the safe routes initiative.
Sally Whittaker

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
Jane Howard

The Prince of Wales lives in a world where everybody says Yes, and the only people who can tell him things he doesn't want to hear are his parents.
Paul Burrell



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