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My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.

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Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

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A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

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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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My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.

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My parents have raised me with a sense of what's really important and have given me decent values, and I'm comfortable, but I haven't lived an excessive lifestyle in the least. And I've kept my expenses to a minimum so that I have the freedom to wait.

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When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

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The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.

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It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three.

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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

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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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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

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I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

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For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

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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.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Parent Quotes , Elements Quotes

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

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