#pare

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. ↗

— Napolean Hill

#great #nature #plan #prepare #responsibilities

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#could #dance #dancing #i #parents

They would hear 3000 and think it was the year 3000, I was hoping it would sort of disorient them and prepare them for the strange message they were about to receive. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#hear #hoping #i #message #prepare

I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed. ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#call #embarrassed #get #had #hate

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#change #humor #love #parents #change

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ↗

— Michael Levine

#parenting

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#clothes #experienced #grandparents #i #looking

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#children #glory #grandeur #just #leaves

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#best #children #convinced #educators #experts

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working. ↗

— Alison Moyet

#parent #prohibited #single #single parent #working