#parent

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#boy #deep #deep inside #dependent #embarrassed

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. ↗

— Dave Barry

#adolescent #embarrassing #more #nothing #parent

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#broad #everything #exists #intoxicate #kind

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#philosophy #self-assurance #parenting

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#cancers #chronic #dad #ended #had

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#apparent failure #dazzling #failure #islam #mohammed

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man. ↗

— Adam Baldwin

#am #doing #drove #enjoy #fame

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#correction #parents

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#converts #different #different parts #early #father

Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.' ↗

— Amy Adams

#because #girl #hair #i #kid