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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Rodney Dangerfield

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

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

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

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

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

I'm probably going to be one of those very embarrassing parents who's a naturist.
Robbie Williams

Rather than just a binary choice between grammar schools for some and secondary modern for others, it is far better to have wider diversity in schools and greater choice for parents
David Davis

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children!
King Edward VIII

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

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

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

My name is Brian Green by birth. Austin was made up by my parents when I was nine, because there was another Brian Green in the Screen Actors Guild.
Brian Austin Green

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

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill Cosby

It's the sort of thing parents might chant encouragingly to a child slow on the potty-training [on Obama's campaign slogan of 'Yes we can']
Christopher Hitchens

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

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.
Queen Mary

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
Thomas Hardy

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

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: 'Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?'
J A Schumpeter

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'we saw your movie'. 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?'
Brad Pitt

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

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
Natalie Portman

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star
Shania Twain

I think that when people hear that my middle name is Moon they start to wonder a thing or two about my parents!
Soleil Frye

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

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

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

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

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

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou

Labour have already given parents the power to draw up plans for their own schools
Jim Knight

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
Claudette Colbert

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

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

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

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

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

Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannise their teachers.
Socrates

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

All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.
Catherine Zeta Jones

I always have been proud of being a Swiss, but I don't know very much about His [Switzerlands's] glory story, as my parents left to France in the year 1886 when I was seven an half years old.
Louis Chevrolet



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