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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
Aharon Appelfeld

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

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

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

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

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people
Joely Fisher



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