#parent

The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#changed #fall #generation #india #into

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#even #expected #home #housework #intellectuals

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#absolutely #adult #been #brilliant #dinner

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#apparently #balancing #flags #flying #grand

My parents live right down the street from the house I grew up in. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#grew #house #i #live #parents

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave. ↗

— Pericles

#gives #grave #king #men #parent

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#children #could #environment #fact #genes

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#calm #children #hear #important #keep

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#arts #began #candle #definition #god

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#dignity #feet #great #ground #helps