#pare

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#before #bring #gave #generation #house

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#giants #grim #like #peace #precocious

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it. ↗

— Liz Phair

#gush #i #i love #like #love

Happy Days was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show. ↗

— Tom Bosley

#although #days #family #grow #grow up

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress. ↗

— Frank Pittman

#distrust #make #ourselves #parents #seem

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#life #prepared #ready #them #things

This was just one of many times God has spared me. ↗

— Jack Kelley

#just #just one #many #me #ny times

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans. ↗

— Richard Burr

#faced #inconveniences #minor #new #new orleans

Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren. ↗

— Mary Calderone

#going #grandchildren #husbands #just #other

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#compared #dearest #dearest friend #earth #friend