#dre

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#aspiration #children #competence #fathers #highest

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#authority #children #entertainment #entertainment industry #everything

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#because #being #children #development #does

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#being #big #black #children #clips

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#any #dreams #friend #less #looking

Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living. ↗

— Stephen LaBerge

#field #living #research #sleep #wonderful

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be? ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#arrow #bad #bow #clothes #could

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing. ↗