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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 grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

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Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

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I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

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

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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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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

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Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

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For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

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I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

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The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

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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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But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.

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For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

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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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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

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Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are.

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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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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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