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"Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first Pilgrims and pioneers. And as Americans wander through these forests, climb these mountains, they will sense the love and majesty of the Creator of all of that."
"When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond."
"The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children."
"Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first. Brands need to do that."
"If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away."
"You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's noisy - but for you it's fun, you're resting. You're actually doing experiments... Just tell your parents that they're experiments, and you want to become a scientist, and then they won't stop you from doing anything you want."
"The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or--in my case--remember to say good-bye to them at all."
"One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he was sitting on the grass, very peaceful, smiling, and I was impressed. Around me people were not like that, so I had the desire to be someone like him. I nourished that kind of desire until the age of sixteen, when I had the permission from my parents to go and ordain as a Buddhist monk."
"Im completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five."
"What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy."
"All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them."
"I had my breakthrough at 6 years old and received the Lord, Jesus Christ. I was so swept up in the spirit, I told my parents I had future plans to enter the priesthood."
"Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason."
"To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family."
"The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't"
"You won't see my parents honored on any stamps."
"Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid."
"Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on."
"All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education."
"The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents."
