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Parents Quotes
"A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp."
10
"If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully."
8
"I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me."
8
"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it."
8
"If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents."
8
"There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that."
7
"I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school."
6
"My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!"
6
"If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two."
6
"My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind."
6
"I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older."
6
"We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory."
6
"Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you."
5
"I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same."
5
"As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing."
5
"I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in."
5
"When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents."
5
"I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents."
5
"Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer."
5
"Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California."
5
"I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces."
5
"I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself."
4
"My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do."
4
"My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else."
4
"It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents."
4
"I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium."
4
"My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities."
4
"We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents."
4
"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
4
"I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training."
4
"And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on."
4
"Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind."
4
"I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'"
4
"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."
4
"I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane."
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