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Parents should be the most important examples for their children. -- Christy Turlington
The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example. -- Drew Barrymore
My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives. -- Ben Marcus
Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples. -- Tom Hulce
If you ask me, 'Are you for or against gay parents?' for example, having kids - it's hard for me to say, 'Yes.' -- Juan Pablo Galavis
A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do. -- Todd Park
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example. -- Jonathan Lethem
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Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents. -- Joyce Meyer
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models. -- Lee Haney
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
An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day. -- Don Kardong
My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career. -- Andrea Jung
The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to. -- Andrew Shue
The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally. -- Steve Forbes
I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible. -- St. Vincent
I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road. -- Bob Seger
After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions. -- Cory Booker
The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education. -- John Engler
I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents. -- Dallin H. Oaks
Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities. -- George Herbert
The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children. -- Robert Muller
Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity. -- Ellen G. White

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