#pare

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children. ↗

— John Doolittle

#certainly #children #conception #country #courts

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#america #arrived #come #even #here

I think my parents were high when they named me. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#i #i think #me #named #parents

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ↗

— Alex Haley

#grandparents #little #little children #lives #nobody

There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#back #being #doings #good #might

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#be prepared #being #being there #blame #city

Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction. ↗

— James Blunt

#army #career #could #direction #experience

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#apparently #doing #earmarks #eliminating #excited

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#bread #doctors #feeling #food #fruits

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#because #believe #delusion #enter #essence