#pare

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. ↗

— John Woolman

#had #having #i #improve #leisure

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#advice #anything #athlete #coaches #dictate

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#athlete #being #body #how #know

Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#enjoying #hardest #i #knew #long

The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined. ↗

— Martin Yan

#burnt #counts #dish #even #how

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#day #grandfather #heard #home #one day

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. ↗

— Andy Gibb

#balance #being #business #close #family

You are never really prepared for criticism. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#never #prepared #really #you

I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#anybody #even #even now #ever #families

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#be prepared #belongs #changes #life #lives