Quotes with step-parents

Quotes 141 till 160 of 435.

  • Charles Simmons Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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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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  • Blake McIver Ewing It's not particularly fun to have to factor in step stools to almost all areas of your home.
    Blake McIver Ewing
    American singer-songwriter, actor and pianist (1985 - )
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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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  • Bob Newhart Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Harold J. Seymore Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.
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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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  • Samuel Johnson Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ralph Ransom Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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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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  • Lord George Byron Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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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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