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However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent. -- Robert Winston
Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do? -- Robert Downey, Jr.
My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York. -- Mike McCue
As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge. -- Ewen Bremner
My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade. -- Sanford I. Weill
Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new. -- Mariska Hargitay
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition. -- Penn Jillette
My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life. -- Howard Schultz
I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato -- Will Ferrell
Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy. -- Jenna Morasca
There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture. -- Sheila Kamerman
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
As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything. -- Prince William
New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters. -- Paul Reiser
Immigrant parents dream that their children will find a place in their new home, and they willingly suffer hardships in service to that dream. That was certainly true of my parents. -- Gene Luen Yang
I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?' -- Jill Soloway
I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old. -- Gregory Corso
I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion. -- Carine Roitfeld
I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. -- James Dean
I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. -- Christopher Walken
The best advice I can give to new parents is to realize immediately that your children will be unique individuals. Give them the space to be themselves and to develop their own personalities and characteristics. -- Donald Trump
Your top job as a new parent is to love your baby like crazy. After showering her with affection, your next two important jobs are to feed her and to calm her when she cries. -- Harvey Karp
I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan. -- King Tuff
I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids! -- Moira Kelly
My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them. So my love of acting seeped in from watching my parents and seeing them having fun. -- Jane Krakowski
What every new parent needs.a ton of expert advice, presented with humor and zero negativity, from two moms who instantly feel like your best friends. This is the one pregnancy guide that new parents will actually want to read. -- Leslie Morgan Steiner
If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept. -- James Collins
We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents. -- Rick Riordan
I think the last few weeks for me have been just a very different emotional experience. Something I never thought I would feel myself. And I find...a lot of things affect me differently now. As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything. -- Prince William
Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later. -- Colson Whitehead
You have a healthy baby boy! The words ring like church bells in the ears of new parents. -- Dr. Linda Barboa
Don't see yourself as a product of your parents DNA, but rather as a brand new idea from heaven. -- Max Lucado
And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents. -- John Engler
Scott Bullett, as he takes left field, is getting congratulations from everybody. He and his daughter are parents of a new baby. -- Harry Caray
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. -- Richard Avedon
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents? -- Mark Twain
I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet. -- Liya Kebede
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents! -- Diane Lane
We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment. -- Laura Bush
My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain. -- Michele Lee
Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes. -- L. Tom Perry
You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate. -- George Clinton
I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia. -- Demian Bichir
That's why I get excited over new things, because I didn't have much when I was smaller and my parents could only do so much. -- Jc Caylen
Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets. -- Tom Udall
My parents were from New England. It's very funny, but when I grew up, you always had to say, 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Yes, sir.' -- Cy Twombly
My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals. -- Margaret Atwood
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age. -- Frank Pittman
Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I was born. -- Robert Fogel
A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social networking sites. -- Jimmy Fallon
Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived. -- Sheryl Swoopes
I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?' -- Colin Angle
I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation. -- Anne Waldman
I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia. -- Robert Fogel
My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents. -- Kenneth Joseph Arrow
My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents. -- Kenneth Joseph Arrow
My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers. -- Patti Smith
Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'? -- Jef I. Richards

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