#pare

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#acceptance #age #always #around #attached

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#house #inside #lived #parents #pillows

My kids are so much better parent than I was. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#i #kids #much #parent #than

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#comes #father #gentleness #how #i

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#i #i think #love #obviously #parentage

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#faults #forgive #instilled #least #parents

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#difficult #parents #trace #very #your

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking! ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#backed #because #came #drinking #else

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#life #pay #purpose #rent #service

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#i #kids #lives #parents #problems