#parents

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

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#days #eat #italy #like #nights

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#children #communities #continue #education #involved

I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#depend #families #get #i #incomes

The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#churches #emotional #government #intervene #kind

I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it. ↗

— Catherine O'Hara

#did #few #had #i #like

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

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#battlefields #civil #civil war #continue #during

Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#being #economy #failing #false #food