#pare

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#back #child #feel #find #hadn

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#benchmark #equals #fat #generation #parents

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#ancient #apparent #aspect #athletics #cities

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%. ↗

— Jack Welch

#brains #bring #challenges #combination #compared

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#arrived #been #country #dakota #first

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat. ↗

— Allen West

#atlanta #born #city #combat #commission

Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon. ↗

— Dominic West

#apparently #down #forget #settle #soon

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#always #case #child #could #felt

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#agreed #children #classroom #commonly #conversation

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#cameras #classrooms #greater #parents #substitute