Parent Quotes - Page 11

• It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.

  Scott McClellan

  Coincidence, Kent

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• If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.

  Steve Jobs

  Country, School, Thinking

  "Steve Jobs: America's Schools Are Dying". Interview With Daniel Morrow, www.forbes.com. October 24, 2011.

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• One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their parents are. They know their parents have these old views.

  Katherine Boo

  Views, People, Way

  "Finding 'Life, Death And Hope' In A Mumbai Slum". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 8, 2012.

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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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• I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA.

  Kellie Pickler

  Cat, Pride, Animal

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• When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.

  David Crosby

  Santa Barbara, Years, Sea

  FaceBook post by David Crosby from Jun 13, 2013

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• People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.

  Jill Abramson

  Dog, New York, Growing Up

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• In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Years, Gold, Nine

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• My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Running, Gymnastics, Years

  "For Gymnast Moceanu, Life Threw Her Off Balance". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 30, 2012.

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• When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'

  Kevin Harrington

  Jobs, Real, Young Entrepreneurs

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• Im from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.

  Cassie Ventura

  Mom, Fun, Dad

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• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  T-Pain

  Thinking, Giving, Alive

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• Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Children, Reading, Glowing

  Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.48, Macmillan

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• I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what its like to lose a beloved parent.

  Simone Elkeles

  Dad, Beloved, Lost

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• Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

  Karen DeCrow

  Men, Said, Should

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• Could we betray our parents by going back to them?

  Karen Russell

  Betray

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• I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Dad, Cincinnati Ohio, Fox News

  "The Jobs Czar: General Electric's Jeffrey Immelt". "The Jobs Czar" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. October 09, 2011.

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• A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

  Heather O'Neill

  Children, Growing Up, Cities

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• I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

  Margaret Spellings

  Thinking, Culture, Kind

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• Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural, and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between child and parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.

  Rosalind Goforth

  Spiritual, Prayer, Children

  Rosalind Goforth (2016). “How I Know God Answers Prayer”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

  Michael Mina

  Doctors, Choices, Three

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• My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Mom, Strong, Dad

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• The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on

  Tucker Max

  Running, Easter, Children

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.

  Ken Livingstone

  Kids

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• My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.

  Francisco Costa

  Fashion, Textiles, Factories

  Interview with Ryan McGinley, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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