#parents

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attend #calculation #children #cost #inhabiting

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys. ↗

— Joe Lando

#hold #i #lessons #me #now

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#growing #growing up #i #loving #loving parents

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it. ↗

— Edward Norton

#along #care #causes #changing #changing the world

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly. ↗

— Deborah Norville

#give #grow #i #i think #job

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#after #away #been #could #felt

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. ↗

— Barack Obama

#america #barack #barrier #believing #blessed

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#because #big #close #discouragement #education

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#get #going #me #other #parents

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#absolutely #adult #been #brilliant #dinner