Great Parents Quotes - Page 2

• I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Summer, Nice, Garden

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• Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

  Grace Gummer

  Brother, Growing Up, Parent

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• I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about money and that I couldn't count on the good fortune of doing a show forever. Therefore, I never spent money I didn't have and didn't end up destitute like other child actors.

  Ken Osmond

  Children, Common Sense, Parent

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• Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the same time the most beautiful of the winged species.

  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

  Beautiful, Parent, Hummingbirds

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• What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Teacher, Parent, Vision

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• We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood...who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened!

  Andy Andrews

  Crazy, Kids, College

  "The Noticer Returns | An Interview With Andy Andrews". Interview with Matt Ham, mattham.com. October 3, 2013.

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• If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Children, Parent, Raises

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• I was blessed. I had a great childhood and great parents that loved music and family. I moved from England when I was almost 18 and been on my own ever since and have been trying to make a living in the music business for the past twelve years. A lot of people say I'm an overnight success, but it's an overnight success that's been twelve years in the making.

  Bo Bice

  Blessed, Past, Years

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• I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents.

  Ethan Hawke

  Smart, Thinking, Parent

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.

  Jerry Jones

  Sports, Class, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I have met with many of the great parents who lost their children to sanctuary cities and open borders. So many people, so many, many people. So sad.

  Donald Trump

  Children, Cities, People

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech" by Travis Dove, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

  Maya Angelou

  Mom, Children, Distance

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey in O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.

  Ally Condie

  Girl, Mom, Opportunity

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• Darkness, thou first great parent of us all,
  Thou art our great original!

  Thomas Yalden

  Art, Parent, Darkness

  Thomas YALDEN (1833). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Yalden: to which is Prefixed, a Biographical Sketch of the Author, by the Editor. Magnet Edition”, p.5

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• I was taught very well. My mom raised me very well, and so did my dad. I've been very blessed to have great parents that cared about me.

  Justin Bieber

  Mom, Dad, Blessed

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

  Bill Crawford

  Kids, Parent, Belief

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• The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

  John Woolman

  Wise, Son, Men

  John Woolman (1847). “A journal of the life, gospel labours, and Christian experiences of ... John Woolman ...: To which are added his last epistle, and other writings ...”, p.84

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• My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.

  Christopher Bollen

  Parent, Watches, Tvs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dad was a lovely guy. I had great parents. But he was a conservative shopkeeper, and he said, "Look, I don't know how to help you as an actor, but if you want to be an actor, give it a go for a year. Get a job. And if you don't get a job, then we're going to reevaluate and you're going to go back to school." And I thought that was a fair thing.

  John Kapelos

  Jobs, Dad, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

  Roseanne Barr

  Years, Parent, Taught

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.

  Tracy Letts

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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• The challenges that I face today are the same challenges we all face. Trying to balance your life between work, family, loved ones, your husband, your wife - boyfriend or girlfriend. If you have kids - balancing that, balancing your work with the time you spend with your kids. The idea of wanting to be a good parent and then the motivation to be a great parent. Whether you're black, white, any color. Rich, poor, regardless of religion, cousins of culture, we go through those. We have the same challenges.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Girlfriend, Cousin, Motivation

  "Mythical Proportions: An Exclusive Interview With Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson". Interview with Matt Tuthill, www.muscleandfitness.com.

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• I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

  John Green

  School, Thinking, Parent

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

  Yolanda Adams

  Thinking, Grandparent, Missing

  "Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams, 'Day by Day'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 30, 2005.

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• Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Parent

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.110, Rowman & Littlefield

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