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My parents are going to kill me!""That seems rather harsh...

Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of m...
Show MoreThe natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
Nothing worse... nothing worse that to be stuck somewhere with some married a-hole and have to liste...
Show MoreWhen I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I he...
Show MoreChildren, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying ...
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The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and,...
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I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
I believe that it should be the blessing of every child to be born into a home where that child is w...
Show MoreIn the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next gen...
Show MoreHe died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn’t even sta...
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Maybe you never stop feeling like an eight-year-old in front of your parents. You resolve to be your...
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No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and...
Show MoreYou know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belie...
Show MoreNothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which j...
Show MoreIt never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.
Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my ...
Show MoreMy brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults...
Show MoreI believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your ...
Show MoreThe first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became...
Show MoreIn peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter...
Show MoreI pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that...
Show MoreMy parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.
I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents,...
Show MoreOnly when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand th...
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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but ...
Show MoreCan you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in...
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God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other ...
Show MoreI never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was blac...
Show MoreThat's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at ...
Show MoreUnhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to...
Show MoreParents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.

You'll stay with me?'Until the very end,' said James.

Come on!' he muttered, staring about. 'Where are you? Dad, come on--" But no one came. Harry raised ...
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My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight...
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You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look,

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone —adults promising us their own failed future.

Y'all know how much I love you? "Infinity and back again," I say the way I've said it a million time...
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Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of hi...
Show MoreMy parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals wh...
Show MoreWombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and ...
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot af...
Show MoreMy parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very h...
Show MoreI think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comforta...
Show MoreAfter having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandest...
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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your...
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If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young peopl...
Show MoreChildren born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cogni...
Show MoreWhile not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their c...
Show MoreRationalizing him and the glass pipe, Dad smoked crack, but he was not a crackhead; it was just some...
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I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets wou...
Show MoreChildren do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the...
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She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her u...
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Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or ...
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My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my...
Show MoreAre parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from colleg...
Show MoreMy parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. Th...
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Show MoreI knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early age, y...
Show MorePatriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by yo...
Show MoreWhen you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell o...
Show MoreI don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's in...
Show MoreI got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell ...
Show MoreThe most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to des...
Show MoreMy parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the...
Show MoreThe death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things...
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Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

Do you have kids?" Anna asks.I laugh. "What do you think?""It's probably a good thing," she admits. ...
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I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them....
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When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after...
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What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made ...
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I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now thin...
Show MorePatients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can dr...
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There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone...
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Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.
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When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults ...
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So t...
Show MoreHaving children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over...
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither,...
Show MorePatty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they s...
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Reading Chip's college orientation materials, Alfred had been struck by the sentence New England win...
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When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavem...
Show MoreI’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than yo...
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He saw what they either couldn't see or couldn't allow themselves to see, and that only made him mor...
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The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is trem...
Show MoreOur parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most fea...
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When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything th...
Show MoreI guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know...
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Show MoreThe mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering a...
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has ...
Show MoreI wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted ...
Show MoreMost kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.