Famous Quotes: Parents

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
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Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
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Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.
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I don't want to make niche-oriented music.
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My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
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My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.
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I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.
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Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.
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A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
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It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
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You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.
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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
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Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.
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My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.
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If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
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I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
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I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!
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