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I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend. -- Henry Rollins
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. -- Wendy Wasserstein
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children. -- John Doolittle
Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children. -- Dirk Benedict
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
Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom. -- Troian Bellisario
It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves. -- Gordon Neufeld
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated. -- Ernest Istook
People in China have a range of strong views about how children should be protected when they go online and whether the responsibility should be with the government, with parents, or somebody else. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared. -- Pat Robertson
Men and women have defined roles, and it's the responsibility of a parent to make sure they know which way to go; otherwise, a child would feed themselves with their feet without the correct guidance. -- Monica Johnson
Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something. -- J. G. Ballard
My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.' -- Denise Morrison
Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility. -- Nicole Ari Parker
I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others. -- Blanche Lincoln
When you become a parent, that's a whole new level of life intruding. Nobody tells you how boring and time-sucking it's going to be! Or how the responsibility feels like an airbag going off in your life. -- Maria Semple
The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children. So, I think we have a responsibility to educate parents how to produce healthy meals for their families. -- Robert Irvine
I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility. -- Ernest Istook
Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility. -- Shannon Woodward
We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents. -- Hunter Tylo
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others. -- Ben Shapiro
My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility. -- Chelsea Clinton
When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others. -- Ellen J. Barrier
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 think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility. -- Meg Cabot
My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility. -- Claire Danes
Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as Gods children. -- Dirk Benedict
Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society? -- Robert B. Reich
Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults -- Bobby McFerrin
Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults. -- Bobby McFerrin
I related so much to the responsibility of being a parent, the responsibility of "did you screw your kid up," the responsibility of letting your own parents down. -- John Krasinski
We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid. -- Justin Timberlake

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