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Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about teachers, students, parents, money, people

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

Quote by Boy George about parents, age, olderness

I was a kid during the Second World War and even before that my parents had one of the first radio sets, and there was Radio London.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about parents, war, world

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Quote by William Godwin about affection, parents, children, human imperfections, love

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.

Quote by Owen Hart about novelty, parents, school, time, children

But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.

Quote by Eva Herzigova about parents, home, house

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

Quote by Dustin Hoffman about army, parents

My parents moved from Europe, first to Cuba for three years and then to America, where my dad joined the Army.

Quote by Billy Joel about army, parents

And that wasn't a problem coming out of the closet at all. My parents accepted it. I had, you know, I was very lucky in that respect.

Quote by Elton John about parents, respect, contentment

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won't either.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, chance, parents, sex, contentment

The worst chew-out from parents always comes from an incident their child lied about.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, parents, children

After a concert, parents rave about the pop selection played and say nothing about the test piece.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about tests, parents, nothing

Your parents' advice only makes sense 20 years after they gave it to you.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about advice, parents, common sense, sense, contentment

The relationships that people have that are sexual, psychological, emotional these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair about opinion, parents, sex, rightness, people

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.

Quote by Ashley Olsen about parents, family, need

These were profane when my parents were my age, and I expect they will still be profane when my children are my age.

Quote by Doug Ose about parents, age, olderness, children

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.

Quote by Rafael Palmeiro about parents, communism, reason, contentment

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

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about teaching, parents, school

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

Quote by Sara Paretsky about parents, home

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.

Quote by Christopher Parker about parents, interest, school, time