#pare

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#control #felt #had #i #mother

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anything #financed #had #i #impossible

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things. ↗

— Helen Clark

#being prepared #express #had #having #i

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#committed #convinced #me #parents #paris

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents. ↗

— Frances Bean Cobain

#came #default #famous #i #i came

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#children #driving #how #learn #life

We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#american people #defend #force #freedom #make

The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#emotionally #most #need #prepared #small

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#becomes #brain #conversations #direction #faculties

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#basically #beat #bright #drawn #father