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Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance. -- Steve Erickson
Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage. -- Garcelle Beauvais
My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out. -- Warren Spector
Anybody who has children and children who are well feels a sense of responsibility towards parents and kids and families that are struggling and that aren't well. -- Annette Bening
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. -- Judy Blume
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. -- Maurice Sendak
Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them. -- Stephen Daldry
Parents should support and love their kids no matter what. -- Tracy Morgan
Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids. -- Estelle
Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop. -- Henry Rollins
Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing. -- Phil McGraw
When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare. -- Adam Sandler
I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids. -- Yul Vazquez
I was a good kid. My parents laid rules out for me, and I followed them. -- Heidi Klum
I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild. -- Steven Spielberg
I can't stand films where parents are portrayed as old and doddery, and ignore their kids. -- Gurinder Chadha
Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer? -- Paula Abdul
I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents' unconscious better than the parents ever do. -- Mike Mills
Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in. -- Alexa Vega
Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad. -- Mark Hoppus
As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening. -- Anna Gunn
Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things. -- Tino Sehgal
Why would any parent want their kid on their health-care plan when they are 26? Parents want their kids to grow up and take care of themselves. A 26-year-old is an adult. -- Michele Bachmann
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
I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes. -- Paula Danziger
Strict parents create sneaky kids. -- Bryant A. Loney
Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids. -- Steve Toltz
The parents are pissed, but the kids love it. -- Eminem
Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything. -- Amy Chua
Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding. -- Ken Livingstone
Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of. -- Maurice Sendak
I really value people besides parents who nurture kids. -- Dar Williams
No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness. -- Kirstie Alley
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Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit. -- Bob Harper
Our parents got to be kids. Now it's our turn. -- Mary-Kate Olsen
On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Kids have parents. Let the parents be responsible for the kids. -- Bruce Bickford
The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't -- Mitch Miller
Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids. -- Morley Safer
Take the government away. Let the parents take care of their kids. -- Bruce Bickford
You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do. -- Ivan Lendl
Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays. -- Deb Caletti
Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone. -- Buzz Aldrin
My parents walked in on me Googling 'agents for kids' when I was 9. -- Graham Phillips
When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids. -- Hanya Yanagihara
Leesha knew from experience that when parents don't parent, kids grow up fast. -- Cinda Williams Chima
It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents. -- Joy Browne
Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them. -- Nancy Gibbs
I wanted to make youthful, irreverent anthems. Parents might not get it, but kids would. -- Kesha
My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids. -- Ross W. Greene
Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.. -- Ray Romano
K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things. -- Bill Gates
Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents -- Rod Blagojevich
I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music. -- Jonny Lang
Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated! -- Ryan North
I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read. -- Alain de Botton
Of the top 30 words that parents are calling kids' attention to ('look at the'), 12 are animals. -- Jean Berko Gleason
I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education. -- Weili Dai
If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world. -- Vincent Cassel
I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents No. 1 priority is the kids education. -- Weili Dai
When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy. -- Beeban Kidron
Kids on the set tend to be a pain, and if they're not, their parents are. -- Timothy Olyphant
There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents. -- Kevin Costner
Kids in America today are overweight and lazy, and it's their parents fault for letting it happen. -- Phil Robertson
The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids decision not to drink alcohol. -- Xavier Becerra
I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems. -- Dave Eggers
Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model. -- Andy Stanley
Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives. -- Penelope Leach
When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance. -- Dan Ariely
The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol. -- Xavier Becerra
Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching. -- Francis Chan
I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says. -- Marco Rubio
We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed. -- Gerald Caiafa
We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed. -- Gerald Caiafa
Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to. -- Uncle Kracker
Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are? -- A. E. Hotchner
One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents. -- Jon Voight
I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly. -- Deborah Norville
Your parents put a curse on you - Someday your kids are going to act just like you. -- Bill Cosby
I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles. -- Molly Ringwald
This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids. -- Downtown Julie Brown
A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family. -- Chaz Bono
Parents should not let kids listen to my music if it's offensive. I wrote these songs for me. -- Kesha
A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family. -- Chaz Bono
Parents want their kids' approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents' approval. -- Elizabeth Kolbert
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability. -- Ben Marcus
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you. -- Anne Lamott
Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have. -- Mel Carnahan
A message to parents who think legalizing weed will make their kids want to try it: they will anyway. -- Doug Benson
First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave. -- Hillary Clinton
Kids need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't need to be alive for that to happen. -- Randy Pausch
I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids. -- John Darnielle
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like. -- James Patterson
Other kids would take their parents to the toy store and I'd take my mom to the record store. -- Daron Malakian
Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school. -- Jose Andres
I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment. -- Zig Ziglar
My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films. -- Hideo Kojima
Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices. -- Bill Vaughan
All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being. -- Tom Brady
Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves. -- Dana Milbank
We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - there's no question about it. -- Justin Trudeau
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do. -- Maurice Sendak
If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap. -- Lee Unkrich
Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school. -- Jose Andres
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I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids my older parents and my preachers and everybody. -- Terry Bradshaw
I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids... my older parents and my preachers and everybody. -- Terry Bradshaw
I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents. -- Luke Perry
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs. -- Mayer Hawthorne
Kids don't do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here? -- Harlan Coben
When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents. -- Angelina Jolie
Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore. -- Natsuo Kirino
The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids. -- LZ Granderson
With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum. -- Harry Shum, Jr.
Jill, we became parents so we could tell our kids what to do. Otherwise we're just the tallest people living here. -- Tim Allen
You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert. -- David Guetta
Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real. -- Philip K. Dick
I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life. -- James Van Praagh
But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair. -- Ruta Sepetys

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