We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are astonished that it should occasionally cleave asunder or tremble: as though, forsooth, these signs could be any other than expressions of the indignation felt by our sacred parent!
Pliny the Elder
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It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.
Ana Tijoux
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Commerce is abusive. It's very hobbling to always be saying, 'Please let me put this out, this thing I've worked on for years.' It's like a nasty parent saying, 'No! Now go to your room.' As publishing companies got bigger, you felt even less significant.
Patti Davis
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An unmarried adult who cannot navigate the welfare system has no choice but to work, but a married working parent is constantly evaluating the relative merits of staying home with the kids versus bringing home that second paycheck.
Philip Greenspun
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As a parent, I know how difficult it can be to encourage your kids to eat well.
Steve Easterbrook
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Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.
Nick Earls
LifeGoodTimeMeParentMy Life
There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'
Susan Sullivan
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I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
Spike Jonze
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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
Naveen Andrews
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There's never been a parent in my life.
Shia LaBeouf
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Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.
Simon Van Booy
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Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.
Laurence Fox
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To me, I'm the epitome of what a ghetto child is: I was raised by a single parent; I stayed in apartments my whole life; I don't think I've ever cut the grass.
Two Chainz
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Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.
Tony Dungy
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I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied. I was dyslexic. I had an immigrant single parent. I was the opposite of that kind of ideal, cool girl thing.
Kaya Scodelario
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas Carlyle
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I had four children, we all had to struggle to get up and get educated, and they all did their part, and we all did the best we could, and that's what a family and a parent is supposed to do.
Robert Forster
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People think the advantage of a parent in the business is that they'll open doors for you. But the true advantage for me is having someone who knows exactly what you're going through.
Katherine Waterston
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As every successful parent learns, one way to encourage good behavior, from room-cleaning to tooth-brushing, is to make it fun. Not surprisingly, the same principle applies to adults. Adults like to have fun, too.
Richard Thaler
GoodFunHave FunParentBehavior
Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
Rosalind Wiseman
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With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.
Heather Locklear
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Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.
Nicole Ari Parker
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The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can't be your parent's definition, the media's definition, or your neighbor's definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.
RuPaul
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I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.
Carroll Shelby
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