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If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

~ James Collins

James Collins Teacher Book Parent

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

~ Martin Freeman

Martin Freeman Son Parent You

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

~ Rachel Sklar

Rachel Sklar Parent Person Something

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

~ Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall Parent Down Boots

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro Child Parent Innocence

Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.

~ Sean Covey

Sean Covey Sister Successful Parent

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

Henry Rollins Friend Parent Help

Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.

~ Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin Child Research Parent

The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.

~ Deirdre O'kane

Deirdre O'kane Parent Appreciate You

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

~ Elizabeth Rodriguez

Elizabeth Rodriguez Love Good Parent

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

~ Dave Barry

Dave Barry World Parent Nothing

When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

~ Ice-T

Ice-T School Man Parent

Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.

~ Mike Myers

Mike Myers Evil Parent Single

The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.

~ Sam Taylor-Johnson

Sam Taylor-Johnson Me Parent Think

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

~ Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker Children Library Parent

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

~ Rob Lowe

Rob Lowe Challenge Parent Fail

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

~ Larry David

Larry David Time Mom Parent

When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It's impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled. You're an orphan. But then I think that life is kind of remarkable, and the thing that causes the biggest pain can also bring amazing energy.

~ Neneh Cherry

Neneh Cherry Life Pain Parent

Being a parent is amazing.

~ Angela Kinsey

Angela Kinsey Parent Being

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero Gratitude Parent Greatest

My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.

~ Pauline Hanson

Pauline Hanson Children Mother Parent

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

~ Horace

Horace Life Suffering Parent

I don't have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable.

~ Lindsay Price

Lindsay Price Parent Care Newborn

Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.

~ Rahm Emanuel

Rahm Emanuel Today Plan Parent

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

~ Rick Moranis

Rick Moranis Me Parent Movies

I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it.

~ Rick Moranis

Rick Moranis Parent Doing Kids

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

~ Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Parent Opinion Difficult

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

~ Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Geoffrey S. Fletcher Work Day Parent

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

~ Estelle

Estelle Parent Single

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

~ Joan Cusack

Joan Cusack Life Impact Parent

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

~ Carl Karcher

Carl Karcher Pain Child Parent

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'

~ Amity Shlaes

Amity Shlaes Child Parent Statistics

What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

~ Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum Parent People Want

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

~ Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman Time Great Parent

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

~ Jeremy Sisto

Jeremy Sisto Child Unique Parent

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

~ Blair Underwood

Blair Underwood Child Parent Bond

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

~ Kate Beckinsale

Kate Beckinsale Losing Me Parent

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

~ Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby Fool Worry Parent

I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.

~ Eric Schlosser

Eric Schlosser Parent Why Working

We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

~ Panayiotis Zavos

Panayiotis Zavos Child Parent Chapter
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