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They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle. -- Sarah Silverman
I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me. -- Justin Timberlake
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. -- Laura Schlessinger
I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent. -- Danny Bonaduce
I was taught very well. My mom raised me very well, and so did my dad. I've been very blessed to have great parents that cared about me. -- Justin Bieber
I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden. -- Nikki Giovanni
I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school. -- John Green
Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself. -- Grace Gummer
I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do. -- Marlee Matlin
Outside of my family, I don't really know. They're great people and my parents are great parents, and they brought me up very well, I think. I don't know, I think that's about all the heroes I've had. -- Robert Pattinson
Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots. -- Daniel Radcliffe
I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents. -- Cody Linley
We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood...who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened! -- Andy Andrews
I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing. -- Yolanda Adams
I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet. -- Ally Condie
Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals. -- Ellen DeGeneres
My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on. -- Natalie Zea
I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about money and that I couldn't count on the good fortune of doing a show forever. Therefore, I never spent money I didn't have and didn't end up destitute like other child actors. -- Ken Osmond
I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless. -- Roseanne Barr
If you're going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity -- Randy Pausch
To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents. To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world. -- J.R. Rim
I have met with many of the great parents who lost their children to sanctuary cities and open borders. So many people, so many, many people. So sad. -- Donald Trump
I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents. -- Ethan Hawke
My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies. -- Christopher Bollen
If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are. -- Benjamin Clementine
I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people. -- Jerry Jones
I'm just lucky to have great parents. My sister's an actress. My brother's a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself. -- Grace Gummer
My parents had a great work ethic. -- Charlie Rose
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. -- Robert South
Both of my parents have great senses of humor. -- Kristin Gore
Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too. -- Susanne Bier
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves. -- Constance Baker Motley
Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original! -- Thomas Yalden
If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent. -- Geoffrey Canada
I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium. -- Zach Braff
It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger. -- Malala Yousafzai
Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band. -- MaryJanice Davidson
You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor. -- Liza Minnelli
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one. -- Olivia Williams
One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents. -- Jon Voight
I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents. -- Eric Lindros
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. -- William Godwin
I have amazing parents and some really great friends that would kick my butt if I ever started acting different. -- Jane Levy
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free. -- Thomas Jefferson
Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the same time the most beautiful of the winged species. -- J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value. -- Nathaniel Branden
Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
The great virtue of parents is a great dowry. -- Horace
Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children. -- Mason Cooley
My parents are great listenersWhich is why I never tell them anything -- Sonya Sones
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad. -- John Ray
Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart. -- Pope Francis
I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents. -- Margaret Thatcher
I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents. -- Tim Kaine
Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. -- Daniel Defoe
My parents lived very long lives. And good lives, too. They're great people, but good lives. -- Donald Trump
Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents. -- Melissa Breen
Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to. -- Taylor Mali
My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor. -- Mike Berenstain
I've learned great lessons from my parents for things on the court and off. I really look up to them. -- Dwyane Wade
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents. -- Edward Brooke
My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish. -- Brian McDermott
I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal. -- Matthew Morrison
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were. -- Anna Quindlen
How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny. -- Kevin Leman
And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that. -- Keira Knightley
As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them. -- Hugh Jackman
I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents. -- Jane Wagner
I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age. -- Suzanne Vega
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. -- Andy Gibb
The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children -- George Will
My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like. -- Candace Bushnell
I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying. -- Dian Fossey
Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance. -- Amy Chua
Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully. -- Sebastian Coe
My parents were fine at 85. So 85's nothing. 100 is another thing. I have a friend whose mother is about to turn 101, and it's not great. -- Roz Chast
My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something. -- Bonnie Hammer
I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man. -- Adrian Peterson
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that -- Tony Goldwyn
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that. -- Tony Goldwyn
From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting. -- Susie Orbach
If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger. -- Kevin Richardson
You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers. -- Jason Katims
The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents. -- Carly Fiorina
Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming. -- Joel Salatin
I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job. -- Jakob Dylan

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