#pare

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#becoming #biggest #cannot #change #change things

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. ↗

— John Tyler

#apt #aptly #compared #coquette #elude

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully. ↗

— Jo Brand

#bore #children #death #effort #funny

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#debt #economy #family #parents #family

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#enough #exposure #get #i #kids

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#algerian #am #born #i #i am

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#cling #emotional #growth #home #leave

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#i #job #kid #like #little

We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#i #important #parents #responsibility #share

You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#balanced #came #house #me #my own