#parents

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents. ↗

— Laura Dern

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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

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I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

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While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents. ↗

— Linda Vester

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I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends. ↗

— Rita Dove

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My parents were sixty years married. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

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I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't. ↗

— Mitch Albom

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