Quotes with step-parents

Quotes 421 till 435 of 435.

  • Bill Engvall You could take Vicodin, step out of the house, onto a freeway, have a truck hit you, and you'd say "My Bad!".
    Heres Your Sign Live!
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Barbara Bush You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Benjamin Watson You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bill Bryson You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Ben Stein You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Ann Patchett You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • George Konrad You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
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  • Abraham H. Maslow You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.
    Tracy - How the Best Leaders Lead (2010) p. 35
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Bob Keeshan A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Beauprez My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Oscar Wilde A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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