#pare

I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#almost #as far as #been #closet #college

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#assure #background #be prepared #best #both

My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things, like molecular cuisine, with a lot of additives and chemicals, which are now showing that they could be bad for your health. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#additional #additives #bad #chemicals #compared

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#distractions #eating #fine #flavor #food

I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV. ↗

— Al Roker

#angry #because #being #better #bitter

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#be yourself #believe #cut #defines #friends

My parents were determined to move into the middle class. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#determined #into #middle #middle class #move

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. ↗

— Judy Blume

#because #censorship #children #fear #kids

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!" ↗

— George Will

#boy #duck #give #guns #like

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary. ↗

— Victor Borge

#i #i wish #making #necessary #parents