Quotes with parents

Quotes 41 till 60 of 247.

  • Arthur Rimbaud I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Toni Morrison I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Alex Haley I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, Children, you must no make so much noise, that I do not think how soon the time may come when, beside the vacant seat, those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them.
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Hippocrates I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
    Hippocrates
    Greek physician (460 - 377)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself, you’d want to try even harder to make it work.
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alan Bennett I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Busy Philipps I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Barbara Bush I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I've always been a family entertainer. Every show I have done has been suitable for any age - parents never need to worry that, if they pop out of the room, I'll say anything untoward.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • B. D. Wong I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Marcelene Cox If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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