Parental Influence Quotes

• My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

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  Franz Boas

  Father   Home   Emotional  

  Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

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• there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

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  Margaret Fuller

  Children   Parent   Use  

  Margaret Fuller (1869). “Life Without and Life Within: Or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems”, p.31

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• The manufacturing corporation, except in comparatively few instances, no longer represents a protecting care, a parental influence, over its operatives. It is too often a soulless organization; and its members forget that they are morally responsible for the souls and bodies, as well as for the wages, of those whose labor is the source of their wealth.

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  Harriet Hanson Robinson

  Business   Organization   Soul And Body  

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• The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

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  Margot Fonteyn

  Daughter   Mother   Age  

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• If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

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  Ivan Lendl

  Sports   Strong   Children  

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• I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

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  Julius Erving

  Basketball   Home   Thinking  

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.

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  Anne Hathaway

  Unique   College   Thinking  

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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