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My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

Robert B. Parker

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Parents

Want

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

Rafael Palmeiro

Parents

Reason

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Amos Oz

Values

Parents

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.