#pare

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#just #justice #parents #quiet #really

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.' ↗

— Bill Cosby

#acting #body #dead #every #fool

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#harder #more #opposite #parents #quickly

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. ↗

— Ron Taffel

#about #adolescence #during #even #ever

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#adolescent #character #gas #his #installment

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#blame #first #if at first #parents #succeed

The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#apparently #bears #before #come #conviction

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#father #me #mother #protected #threatened

When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword) ↗

— John Irving

#imagination #parenthood #death

I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead. ↗

— Mary Crosby

#agent #because #card #dead #forget