#parents

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. ↗

— Russell Baker

#before #children #curiosity #finally #know

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#admiral #apartment #brother #colonel #common

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me. ↗

— Lance Bass

#favorite #favorite things #grew #i #i love

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies. ↗

— Lance Bass

#care #dream #family #give #give me

I'm the only gay person my parents know. ↗

— Lance Bass

#i #know #only #parents #person

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#attempt #because #cultural #culture #dna

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets? ↗

— Jim Bishop

#amount #bodies #car #crash #dwell

I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance. ↗

— Geena Davis

#action #after #compliance #find #i

Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why. ↗

— Bill Bixby

#babysitter #children #going #him #network

My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did. ↗

— Jack Black

#came #did #ever #every #father