"When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits."
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"My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times."
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"My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents."
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"Actors are always looking for new territory, and playing an African figure would be really a great symbol for me because of my Senegalese roots. It would make my parents proud, so of course I'd do it."
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"Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear."
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"What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love."
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"Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell."
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"Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves."
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"No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything."
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"Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all."
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"Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see... 'We are the Proud Parents of a Child who has resisted his teacher's attempts to bend him to the will of his corporate masters'."
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"I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up."
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"Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance."
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"The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes."
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"It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff."
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"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
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"To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents."
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"I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents."
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"Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John."
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"A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!"
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