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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

If the Tao could be served up, everyone would serve it up to their lords. If the Tao could be offered, there is no one who would not offer it to their parents. If the Tao could be spoken of, there is no one in the world who would not speak of it to their brothers and sisters. if the Tao could be passed on, there is no one who would not pass it on to their heirs. However, it obviously cannot be so and the reason is as follows. If there is no true centre within to receive it, it cannot remain;if there is no true direction outside to guide it,it cannot be received.

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.

If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family spirit has passed on its way to us, we should probably become fatalists in face of the apparently overwhelming evidence that there is nothing in us that has not come to us from, or at least through, the Family. Family portrait galleries are a striking confirmation of the persistence of characteristics which ultimately govern the fortunes of successive generations.

If we value our children, we must cherish their parents

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

If we will do our part and take a strong stand for our families, God will do His part. He'll help us to have great marriages and great relationships with our parents and children.

If you don't parent, then don't cry about who your kid is becoming.

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.

If you have a clean environment, you will have a healthy atmosphere. This will make you happy and your happiness will bring joy to your parents and it will affect the community, too. Then there will be peace of mind to one and all.

If you get offended by words - by noises we make with our mouths - it means you were raised by bad parents.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

If you haven't saved, your child may have to work. But do what you can to NEVER take out student or parent loans.

If you live with a single parent, you don't see compromise. You witness a grown person living in a world where they do what they want to do. When you are raised by two parents, you are constantly watching compromise take place. Just by observing that, it made me a better person.

If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.

If youre a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

If you're ever in a dark place, don't resort to violence. Talk to someone; whether it be a therapist, teacher, parent, or just someone you can trust. We all have our dark places and it's important that you get help.

If you're a parent, I tell you how to get through Christmas. I think that if you've ever had a bad feeling about Christmas coming, I'll tell you how to deal with it. So, I think in a way it's like going to a sane psychiatrist that actually gives you some good advice, I hope!

If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the womb.

If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.

If your parents are alive, be grateful at the opportunity to earn Jannah by serving them

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

If your parents were strong in one way and weak in another, you will be strong in the same way and weak in the same way. Even though you detest the weakness in them, you will find that you will do exactly the same things because they imprinted you.

If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.

If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive, call them. Don't text, don't email. Call them. Listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you.

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

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.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.

I got into dialogue because my parents began taking me to see plays from when I was very young. Too young, often, to understand the play I was watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf when I was nine years old; That Championship Season when I was ten years old. But I loved the sound of dialogue; it sounded like music to me and I wanted to imitate that sound.

I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.

I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.