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All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.
— Philip Kerr
The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.
— Mariella Frostrup
When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.
— Christina Aguilera
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.
— Rodman Philbrick
I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a corner and cried on parents' visiting day.
— Adrienne Shelly
I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
— John Darnielle
I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.
— Ethan Suplee
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
— Samuel Johnson
on hold. Calbrain emailed to say Lucy's parents had no objection to the interview, for one important reason. Jerome's
— Carole Pitt
I couldn't keep myself from wondering how on earth I got to have such demented parents.
— Bella Forrest
Nothing reassures parents more than surrounding their kids with the kind of guys who have a lot of weapons and nothing to do on weekdays.
— Stephen Colbert
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.
— Jenny McCarthy
My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.
— Brian K. Vaughan
Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.
— Elizabeth George
Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on.
— David Foster Wallace
Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.
— Jody Cantrell Dyer
No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices.
— Brad Pitt
I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.
— Dambisa Moyo
When my parents were paying for my sport, it wasn't just me out on the ice. Pretty much every dollar my mom made teaching went into my skating.
— Ashley Wagner
Holy Christ, the look on your face," Xavier growled. "I want to fucking devour you. Like parents have that urge to eat their young.
— Varian Krylov
I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.
— Matthew Goode
When you're a kid, you think you're going to have this deep well of time with your parents when you grow up and you're all on equal footing.
— Elisabeth Egan
It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control.
— Sendhil Mullainathan
On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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.
— Doris Lessing
The happiness of children is based on their ignorance of what their parents are really thinking
— Simon Sebag Montefiore
Whenever I have a play or opening or anything going on in my career, my parents always come up and see it.
— Andre Holland
Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds.
— Steven Franssen
My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.
— Gwen Stefani
It's essentially encouraging parents, teachers, and caretakers to remind children how special they are on a regular basis.
— Debra Messing
Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
— Otto Schily
It took a while to accept my parents' death and I don't think I've completely moved on. I could only imagine what it would do to her.
— M.M. Lindelo
My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.
— Vincent Nichols
I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.
— Adam Lambert
Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.
— Casey Wilson
As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.
— Joyce Rachelle
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
— Peter Ustinov
Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.
— Jason Alexander
I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.
— Caroline Kennedy
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
— Maya Angelou
I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
— Chris Hughes
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
— Samuel Butler
If parents don't instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the opposite sex, their kids won't learn it anywhere else.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.
— Gretchen Carlson
My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.
— Alexa Ray Joel
My mom says the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but I'm hopeful that their tree was on a hill and I'm rolling farther away as write
— Kristin Billerbeck
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Kids on the set tend to be a pain, and if they're not, their parents are.
— Timothy Olyphant
Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.
— Danica McKellar
Parents just concentrate on the thing that drives them nuts and all the other good stuff you do goes out the window.
— Joan Bauer
The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.
— Erich Fromm
My parents were passionate about what they did, very cheap, and very focused on doing good in society.
— Anne Wojcicki
My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
— Nadia Giosia
I began absolutely non-stop tormenting my parents, begging them on a daily basis to move there.
— Taylor Swift
There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
— Salman Rushdie
My parents walked in on me Googling 'agents for kids' when I was 9.
— Graham Phillips
Parents rarely let got of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.
— Mitch Albom
My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it.
— Steven Stamkos
My parents want to do things differently. Dad's big on treaties.''And your mother?' Isabeau inquired.
'She's big on making grown men cry. — Alyxandra Harvey
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
— Emilie Buchwald
Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.
— Harold S. Kushner
If there is anyone dependent on your income - parents, children, relatives - you need life insurance.
— Suze Orman
Now whenever I left class to go to the boys' room, I worried that I would end up on the blue tiled floor in a puddle of piss and blood.
— Kenneth Logan
On your birthday thank your parents and celebrate with them. They are the reason you are here and it is their day too.
— Robert Cheeke
Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.
— Daniel Radcliffe
There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.
— Jerry Seinfeld
What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived
— Carl Jung
Parents can't monitor what you are doing on Snapchat.
— Ansel Elgort
It is time to teach society on how to be empathetic with people grieving.
— Nathalie Himmelrich
