#pare

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#apt #better #children #examples #forget

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#common #common enemy #enemy #get #grandchildren

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#american #american children #children #father #little

I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely. ↗

— Derek Luke

#college #failed #family #family member #i

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#any #anything #be prepared #compromise #liked

I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#easy #every #every day #great #help

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#apparent #benefit #does #entail #loss

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters. ↗

— Rachel Blanchard

#brothers #child #confusing #does #fork

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried. ↗

— Ella R. Bloor

#awful #buried #children #colorado #day

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#advances #deliberately #distant #haste #himself