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I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes. -- Eric Heiden
I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces. -- Melissa Auf der Maur
Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching. -- Francis Chan
If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters. -- Eminem
My parents were very proud of me. After they passed, my career doesn't mean as much to me. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them. -- Matthew Lewis
I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean? -- Chris Daughtry
Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents. -- Michael Gove
I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know? -- LeBron James
Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do. -- Joan Cusack
Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel. -- Hedy Lamarr
I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads. -- Joyce Meyer
I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day. -- Bridget Fonda
I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents. -- Carol Moseley Braun
I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side. -- Martin Scorsese
I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it. -- Laura Linney
I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age. -- Sean Hannity
Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do. -- Barbara Coloroso
Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets. -- Carl Honore
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. -- Steven Pinker
I had a couple of friends in high school. And by a couple I mean my parents. -- Jarod Kintz
Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything. -- Gary Shteyngart
Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican. -- John Leguizamo
If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room. -- Frank McCourt
Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean. -- Terry Pratchett
My daughter always behaved in restaurants. And if she didn't, she's going out. I mean, one of the parents is going to take her outside. Immediately. -- Anthony Bourdain
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing. -- Douglas Yates
I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird? -- Paul Rudnick
I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker. -- Robert De Niro

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