Quotes with parents

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  • Jacques Delille Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
    Jacques Delille
    French author (1738 - 1813)
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  • Alan Bennett Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Ogden Nash Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Oscar Wilde Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
    A Woman of No Importance (1893)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • A. E. van Vogt Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Anacreon Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
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  • Mother Teresa Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Cyril Connolly Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Oscar Wilde Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bob Barr For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Avi Arad For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Bing Gordon For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an 'Internet treasure' - a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents, and becomes something we couldn't live without.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Sophie Tucker From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.
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  • Barbara Coloroso Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
    Barbara Coloroso
    American author
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  • Bill Hybels God is no more intimidated by childish demands for instant gratification than are wise parents.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bobby Flay Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anne Frank How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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