"I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents."
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"If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world."
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"My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."
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"Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school."
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"If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents."
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"We are the people our parents warned us about."
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"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."
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"Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?"
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"I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man."
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"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."
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"There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff."
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"My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone."
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"My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about"
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"One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
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"I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint."
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"I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids."
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"It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody."
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"The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice."
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"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]"
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"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example."
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