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You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Marian Wright Edelman

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Marian Wright Edelman

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

Christopher Eccleston

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

Christopher Eccleston

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

Christopher Eccleston

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

Christopher Eccleston

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

My parents didn't really know one another.

Christopher Durang

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

Christopher Durang

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

Christopher Durang

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.