Quotes with parent

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  • George Bernard Shaw The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Bobby Bowden The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Bee Wilson The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Jean Paul The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • John Lennon The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Bill Flores The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Carl Honore The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard The thing that every parent hopes for is that the baby's healthy, I'm healthy. No matter how you feel, that's the most important thing.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Anthony Robbins There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Edgar Quinet Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Thought is the parent of the deed.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Pericles Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
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  • Red Auerbach To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • Oscar Wilde To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Ellery Channing True love is the parent of humility.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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