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Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home. -- Aretha Franklin
Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth. -- Dirk Benedict
Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers. -- Alison Gopnik
My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time. -- Sissy Spacek
Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form. -- Jeffrey Kluger
It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York. -- Jonathan Ames
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go. -- Fred Rogers
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. -- Robert Neelly Bellah
Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college. -- Daphne Oz
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. Armitage
My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way. -- Melanie Fiona
Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house. -- Ricky Martin
Does Scripture forbid homosexual behavior? Of course it does. Jesus and his apostles taught that God's intention in marriage is for a man to leave his parents and join himself to one woman. -- Michael Horton
Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids. -- Candice Bergen
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science. -- Roger Bannister
So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It's like a new thing with families. But you've got to leave the nest and get out there. -- Blake Anderson
The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad. -- Carmen Kass
In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone. -- Nancy Gibbs
Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world. -- Leonor Varela
To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful. -- Jeremy Bonderman

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