Quotes with parents

Quotes 61 till 80 of 247.

  • Burgess Owens If you apologize to me, I look at it as an insult because my parents, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, like every other culture out there, did exactly what they needed to do. They worked hard, and they became part of the American way, and they earned the respect of Americans across the board. We need to do the same.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Dick Cavett If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
    Dick Cavett
    American television personality and comedian (1936 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Mark Twain In Boston they ask, ''How much does he know?'' In New York, ''How much is he worth?'' In Philadelphia, ''Who were his parents?''
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Ruskin In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Carrie Fisher In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • George Canning Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
    George Canning
    British statesman (1770 - 1827)
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  • Ben Marcus It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Samuel Butler It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Horace It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Vance Havner It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Ben Stiller It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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  • Alice Walker It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Henry Rollins Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.
    Henry Rollins
    American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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  • Bill Ayers Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Plato Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Letty Cottin Pogrebin Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.
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  • Augustus Hare Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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