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"It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools started responding. The same thing is true of basic financial literacy."
"I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies."
"As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism."
"I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business."
"If you live with a single parent, you don't see compromise. You witness a grown person living in a world where they do what they want to do. When you are raised by two parents, you are constantly watching compromise take place. Just by observing that, it made me a better person."
"My parents have one rule for me: I can't do any of this if I have any C's on my report card."
"My parents are the people that led me here. My mom helped me learn to sing and she travels with me."
"President Bush delivered a commencement speech at a university in Wisconsin. A very inspirational speech. Apparently Bush told the students, 'You can do anything in life if your parents work hard enough.'"
"As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father."
"Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors."
"Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that."
"Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female literacy [rates] in India. Even there, 80 to 90 percent of the parents would like their girls to go to school. And indeed, about 80 percent would like them to be made compulsory."
"It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child."
"As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material."
"In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised."
"Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence."
"Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective."
"There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent."
"I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible."
"It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to."
