Quotes with step-parents

Quotes 401 till 420 of 435.

  • Bryce Dallas Howard When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Brian K. Vaughan When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Bob Hope When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • John Updike When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Boris Becker When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Eileen Caddy When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Edward Teller When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
    Edward Teller
    American physicist (1908 - 2003)
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  • Gayle Sayers When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
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  • Carl Sagan Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Alice Miller Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Alexander Pope Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • August Strindberg Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Denis Waitley Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Scott Reed With a definite, step-by-step plan - ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a trackā€¦
    Scott Reed
    American author
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  • Candice Millard With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Mohsin Hamid You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Heraclitus You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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