#pare

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#human-nature #parenting #death

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. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#army #because #college #first #go

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#become #being #child #differently #look

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved. ↗

— Lauren Holly

#astonished #back #good #good parent #how

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

— Katie Holmes

#caught #embarrassing #got #horrible #i

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

#child #feeling #hand #kitten #like

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches. ↗

— Russel Honore

#best #coming #eye #here #preparations

Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages. ↗

— Sam Houston

#again #among #compare #country #globe

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children. ↗

— Jane Howard

#around #avoid #children #doom #fact

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today. ↗

— James Howell

#prepared #than #today #tomorrow #yesterday