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• My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Said, My Friends, Has Beens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, This is how youre supposed to do it. And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, Heres the good stuff in life. How do you get there?

  Rich Mullins

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.

  Rich Mullins

  Smart, Thinking, Who I Am

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• I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.

  Missy Peregrym

  Admire, Raised, Humans

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• My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.

  Vincent Nichols

  Crosses, Foreheads

  "My only ambition is to lead a good life. Full stop" by Cole Moreton, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent than the father, because one is born from the mother...so that the image of the woman is the image of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mother, Father, World

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• I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Summer, Adventure, Portland Oregon

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• My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Income, Speech

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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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• I’m honored that PBteen has seen me as someone who can help a broader audience understand the need to use recycled, repurposed and organic materials. Global conservation is a focal point of the capsule collection and it falls right in line with the change and direction I’m working towards, on a professional and personal basis. In collaborating with PBteen, we are creating a subtle and natural feel with this collection - something that has an authentic appeal for teens and their parents alike.

  Kelly Slater

  Fall, Creating, Needs

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• My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

  Charlie Trotter

  Laissez Faire Capitalism, Ultimate, Upbringing

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• The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

  Faye Wattleton

  Powerful, Influence, Permanent

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• I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.

  Jonathan Ames

  New York, Distance, Brooklyn

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• I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

  Chris Lilley

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.

  Chris Lilley

  Hard Times, Thinking, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Honor your parents by not judging them. Give them the benefit of doubt.

  Michael Jackson

  Giving, Judging, Doubt

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• To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

  Chad Harbach

  Writing, Ideas, Precarious

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• Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.

  Chris Abani

  Sibling, Successful, Artist

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• If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

  Shiv Khera

  Children, Way, Responsible

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• Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.

  Matt Salmon

  Children, Believe, School

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• Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

  George Smoot

  Mathematics, Interest

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• Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.

  Michael Gurian

  Children, Home, Two

  Michael Gurian (2010). “The Wonder of Children: Nurturing the Souls of Our Sons and Daughters”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

  Jose Andres

  School, Holiday, Kids

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• The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

  Horace

  Family, Dowry, Virtue

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• Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent."
  Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Love You, Thinking

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