"If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different."
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"We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents."
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"We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent."
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"I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it."
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"My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers."
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"You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself."
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"The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist - perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. Or, who knows, perhaps they thought they lived in a world where there was no longer any place for angels."
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"Believing that your parents are always right."
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"I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong."
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"My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened."
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"The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE."
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"Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother."
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"As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything."
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"There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing."
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"The environment itself was culturally a vacuum, in that there was simply nothing that would inspire me in the arts. But my parents were always very supportive of anything that I explored or wanted to do."
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"My parents were incredibly inclusive."
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"organization is the religion of the single parent."
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"After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth."
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"Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?"
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"O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou."
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