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• Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it’s up to the children to live up to those principles.

  Mary Lydon Simonsen

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• Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

  Peter Ustinov

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• Parents who were themselves raised with too little attention given to their own early feelings, if they have not worked out the resulting emotional problems in subsequent years, often look forward to having children of their own so that the children will make them happy.

  Sheldon Kopp

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• My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I’m like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

  Justin Townes Earle

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• Parents are always giving things that are not taken.

  Ally Condie

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• Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.

  Haim Ginott

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• Your parents may have created you, but they don’t define you.

  Lisa Schroeder

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• I’ve never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

  Hunter Parrish

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• My parents don’t really watch movies at all.

  Teresa Palmer

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• Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they’d be different.

  Tana French

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• My parents didn’t want me to be an actor. They didn’t think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

  Rupert Penry-Jones

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• I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

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• I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.

  Jennifer Hudson

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• I don’t think parents always know where their children are going or what they are doing, what they are up to.

  Nicholas Hoult

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• My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.

  Marya Hornbacher

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• I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it’s better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

  Tom Hooper

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• I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

  Faith Hill

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• I was born in New York, but I was only here for two months. My parents are German, and I grew up in Germany for my first 10 years.

  Peter Hermann

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• One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it’s your parents’ smartphone.

  Thorsten Heins

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• In our house, Mother’s Day is every day. Father’s Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.

  Margaret Heffernan

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