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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou

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

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

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

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

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
Tatyana Ali

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

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

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

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

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.
Earl Wilson

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

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

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

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

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. (Opening line, The Catcher in the Rye)
J D Salinger

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou

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

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

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

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

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents!
Al Goldstein

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



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