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"Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake."
"I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve."
"My parents ingrained in me early on that the perfect score is always something to strive for. I want to win and I want to succeed no matter what."
"I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents."
"...Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family."
"You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated."
"What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm proud of my bandmates for - they're all really good parents."
"I used humor to avoid being picked on as a kid. Or I would try and make my parents laugh, so I wouldn't get in trouble. But as a kid, I would watch Flip Wilson and I would memorize his whole routine, listen to Bill Cosby's records constantly, Steve Martin, Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball. I just drank that stuff up and loved it."
"My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!"
"You learn so much from your parents. We grew up in a home where we were definitely taught to be confident. I definitely give me parents a lot of credit."
"I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment."
"How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives"
"Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa."
"Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss."
"A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence."
"Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies."
"I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence."
"I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids."
"Don't just parent your kids, develop them."
"Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds."
