#pare

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#broke #calculation #child #cold #front

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#also #children #efforts #especially #families

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know? ↗

— Corbin Bernsen

#avoid #did #i #i tried #just

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience. ↗

— David Antin

#colored #develop #differently #experience #family

These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#children #college #designed #enrolled #enter

From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions. ↗

— Bille August

#cut #how #know #prepared #shoot

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#grieves #joys #parents #secret #their

I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared. ↗

— Jane Badler

#angela #everyone #fantastic #i #lovely

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#cotton #domestic #education #had #leave

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#characters #children #enjoying #i #important