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Parents must lay down ground rules for their children to help them to grow up and to learn responsibility for their actions. They must learn to stand on their own two feet.
Charlotte Rae
Responsibility
Parents
Own
Down
Rules
Must
Lay
Feet
Learn
Up
Children
Them
Stand
Ground
Help
Actions
Grow
Grow Up
Two
I always thought of myself as inadequate. Kids of divorced parents always feel that way - that, on some subconscious level, they're responsible.
Charlton Heston
Myself
Thought
Parents
Subconscious
Way
Kids
Responsible
Some
Divorced
Feel
Always
Inadequate
Level
I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.
Chaske Spencer
Today
You
Remember
Mother
Father
Parents
Mother And Father
Reservation
Impact
Pretty
About
Taken
Feel
Schools
Were
Hearing
Off
American
Taught
Native
Native Americans
Stories
Ashamed
Boarding
Much
Grandparents
Who
Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
Chaz Bono
You
Blame
Parents
Kid
Understand
Your
As a kid, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day that my parents took me to Dinosaur National Park, I didn't think life could get any better.
Chelsea Clinton
Life
Day
Me
Better
Parents
National
Think
Took
Kid
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs
Pretty
Park
Could
Obsessed
National Park
Get
Any
I've always been aware of both how extraordinarily normal and how extraordinarily extraordinary my life has been. It's always been important, first to my parents when I was younger, and now very much to me, to live in the world. I would never want to live in a cloister.
Chelsea Clinton
Life
Me
World
My Life
Parents
First
Important
Live
Extraordinarily
Extraordinary
Has-Been
Would
Both
Never
Always
How
Been
Normal
Very
Want
Younger
Much
Now
Aware
My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.
Chelsea Clinton
Life
Work
Day
Me
Every Day
Inspire
Parents
Personal Life
Every
Personal
Grandmother
My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.
Chelsea Clinton
Me
World
Responsibility
Parents
Sense
Approach
Critically
Also
Taught
I always knew I was the center of my parents.
Chelsea Clinton
Parents
Knew
Always
Center
My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.
Chelsea Clinton
Me
Parenting
Father
Thought
Three
Parents
Too
Side
Definitely
Had
He
Like
Read
Learned
Course
Were
Incentive
I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.
Chelsea Clinton
Phones
Parents
Definitely
Charge
How
Text
Taught
The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with my parents and figuring out how to assemble, and staring at the night sky, just for hours, with both of my parents.
Chelsea Clinton
Remember
Sky
Parents
First
Big
Our
Telescope
Out
Backyard
Small
Both
Hours
Sort
How
Getting
Going
Quite
Just
Santa
Santa Claus
Figuring
Assemble
Staring
Present
Night
Seeing your parents fall apart is really rough. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
Chelsea Handler
Parents
Wish
Fall
Seeing
Anybody
Apart
Really
Your
Rough
You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.
Chelsea Handler
You
Parents
Become
Think
Like
Opposite
Either
Your
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.
Chester Brown
Parents
Whatever
Relationships
Would
Would-Be
Sexual
Superficial
Still
Friends
What If
Rewarding
Satisfying
Sibling
I knew I did not want to be a doctor; my parents kept talking to me about that. I wanted to be an NBA player, but around freshman and sophomore year, I stopped growing, so that was the end of that.
Chieh Huang
Me
Doctor
Parents
Year
About
Knew
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
Talking
Around
Freshman
End
Did
Stopped
Want
Wanted
NBA
Growing
Player
Kept
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.
China Mieville
Beautiful
Me
Parents
Looking
Few
Through
Name
Mate
Came
Dictionary
Rhyming
Which
China
Pages
Cockney
Slang
Nearly
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
Chinua Achebe
Teacher
Mother
Father
Parents
Christianity
Thirty-Five
Religious
He
Part
Gospel
Parts
Spreading
Were
Years
Just
Different
Converts
Different Parts
Evangelist
Traveled
Nigeria
Early
When I was supposed to go to a certified kindergarten that's supposed to teach you actual things like how to read, I went to a daycare that my parents thought was a kindergarten. I was Crayola-ing inside the lines with no fundamental education at all. So I walked into the first grade with no formal education at all.
Chip Gaines
Education
You
Thought
Parents
First
Kindergarten
Inside
First Grade
Like
Supposed
Read
How
Go
Lines
Walked
Grade
Formal
Formal Education
Teach
Certified
Fundamental
Actual
Things
In many immigrant families, the parents are just talking and talking about the home country until the children are like, 'Oh, don't tell us any more.'
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Home
Parents
Country
Immigrant
Tell
About
More
Like
Until
Talking
Families
Any
Oh
Just
Children
Us
Many
I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Time
Doctor
Mother
Father
Thought
Parents
First
Before
Stage
Follow
Since
Footsteps
First Time
Got
Wanted
Aged
Might
Actor
Ever
Medical
Pharmacist
I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that's just - you know, I can't walk around people like I'm, like, straight-up American. It's like, I'm Korean American. My parents are from Korea.
Chloe Kim
You
Culture
People
Walk
Face
Parents
Feel
Like
Know
Obviously
Click
Around
Korea
Korean
Traffic
America
American
Just
Really
Used
People ask where I'm from, and I say 'Los Angeles.' Then they ask again. 'Well, my parents are from Korea.'
Chloe Kim
People
Parents
Say
Angeles
Well
Korea
Los
Los Angeles
Where
Again
Ask
Then
My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.
Chris Abani
Mother
Parents
Met
Foot
Feisty
She
Very
Five
Moved
Oxford
English
Lived
Nigeria
Two
I remember watching 'The Carol Burnett Show' with my parents as a kid. All those weird outfits she wore, like turtlenecks and long skirts, really stayed in my head.
Chris Benz
Remember
Long
Parents
Carol
Carol Burnett
Kid
Those
Stayed
Outfits
Head
Weird
Like
She
Burnett
Wore
Really
Show
Skirts
Watching
On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.
Chris Bohjalian
Me
Culture
Conflict
Conservative
Parents
Other
Side
Our
City
Guy
New
Most
Likely
Because
Hand
Up
Very
York
Maybe
New York
New York City
Where
Grew
Suburbs
Transition
Who
Fascinated
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