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Modeling a behavior is 100x stronger than telling someone to act differently. Kids imitate the habits of their parents. Teammates match the competitive energy of one another. Employees learn to manage like their supervisor. Be...

—James Clear

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My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

—Kobe Bryant

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We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

—Criss Jami

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No one ever thinks about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves.

—Demetri Martin

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That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don’t know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it’s just the horizon...

—Emily Perkins

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Acting, as a child, I remember being lots of fun. I know it must have been very stressful on my parents, since auditions were unpredictable, and they both worked full time jobs.

—Christie Laing

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Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

—Dean Koontz

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No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

—Kirstie Alley

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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.

—Mallory Jansen

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The outcome of insane parents is either a murderer or an intellectual.

—M.F. Moonzajer

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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn’t dictate to me any more – that I control my life.

—LaToya Jackson

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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

—Ogden Nash

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If you were my child, I would staple you to your bedroom wall.

—Myra McEntire

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Because the truth was, and we both knew it, he’d gone long, long ago. I’d just made him stick around when he really wanted to be somewhere else. In his own weird way, he was...

—Jennifer Brown

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My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers – all smoking related.

—Loni Anderson

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I know I’m a Third, I know it, if you want I’ll go away so you don’t have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I’m sorry I lost the monitor and now you have...

—Orson Scott

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When I first went to ‘National Geographic,’ I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us,...

—Sam Abell

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In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow – and grow, maybe,...

—Sarah Waters

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I’ve never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate – my father had undergone Freudian analysis – and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up...

—Toby Young

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My instruction to my parents is that I would rather they enjoy their retirement than leave me anything when they go. I am much happier watching them enjoying life.

—Richard C.

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Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.

—Stephen Daldry

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From something as simple as what goes in to a good meatloaf to the not so simple – religion, culture, how you should vote, every damn thing you think or believe, your reactions, your behavior...

—Sandra Brown

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An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to “teach” their children. We should help parents understand the overriding importance of incidental teaching in the context of warm, consistent companionship....

—Raymond S.

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Parents, first and foremost, it is important to… understand and recognise the activities your child is naturally gravitating towards. It’s important also to ensure that your child likes what he or she is doing. I...

—Viswanathan Anand

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It’s been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds...

—Richard Paul

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Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with the greater variety of information that is coming forward than you did. They deliberately are coming forth into this environment where there is more...

—Abraham Hicks

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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

—Anna Quindlen

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Lizzie plays club volleyball and Trent is an amazing writer. We’re lucky our parents didn’t stereotype us, so we could figure out who we are for ourselves.

—Ashley Olsen

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De todas las cosas conocemos la versión que nos han hecho creer. Presuponemos que nuestros padres dicen la verdad, y en realidad no tenemos motivos para pensar de otro modo. Sólo quien va un poco...

—Care Santos

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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all...

—Carl Paladino

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Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when...

—Cathy Rindner

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There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the...

—Gagan Narang

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And if you are a mom who has watched your child’s father leave, my heart goes out to you. I also pray that you had no part in it. I pray that you didn’t make...

—Dan Pearce

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Here’s a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it’s going to pay off later.

—Colson Whitehead

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The only job a parent has is work themselves out of a job.

—Holly Gates

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I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.

—Jami Attenberg

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I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.

—Dakota Fanning

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I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

—Gary Shteyngart

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I’m an only child, so logically I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me they wouldn’t be parents at all, they’d simply be a married couple. (Or maybe without me they...

—Jarod Kintz

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Some of our parents were always on our side. Some of our parents chose to banish us rather than see us for who we were. And some of our parents, when they found out we...

—David Levithan

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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

—Gore Vidal

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It’s nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.

—Guy Lafleur

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I was extremely uncomfortable when my parents asked me to interpret for them, … We have got to understand that it is not an appropriate role for children.

—Leland Yee

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I think when you’re 14 years old, I think you’re sort of looking for markers that prove you’re an adult and you’re independent of your parents.

—Koren Zailckas

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Whether our caretaker was our mom, dad, uncle, aunt, grandparent, foster parent, or sibling, our blueprint of what a relationship is supposed to look like is drafted by what we observed from our caretaker’s relationship....

—Kristen Crockett

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I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I would make them sit there and watch all my plays. I...

—Madison Davenport

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I was lucky to grow up with parents who just did that. Nothing was thrown away until it was completely spent.

—Jennie Rylee

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I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women’s clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I...

—Jessica Valenti

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It didn’t matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

—Jhumpa Lahiri

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I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

—Patrick J.

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