#pare

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State. ↗

— Major R. Owens

#calls #children #clearly #e-mails #education

My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#children #comfortable #comfortable life #could #dad

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#anything #college #graduated #high-school #i

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#against #always #ambition #been #first

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#composers #find #i #i think #living

I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn. ↗

— Paula Yates

#bathroom #collecting #ever #family #father

She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi- much less try to develop a meaningful relationship- since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky. ↗

— Vivian Vande Velde

#funny #geek #girls #heir-apparent #dreams

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#apply #hope #new #now #our

I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#know #parent #strict

As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#disasters #ensure #event #franciscans #francisco