#parent

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#children #fathers #mothers #own #their

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

#author #because #been #choices #door

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies. ↗

— Clive Owen

#come #cool #family #first #i

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#age #based #got #grandparents #i

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family. ↗

— Jung Chang

#case #chairman #children #china #differed

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. ↗

— Angela Carter

#beginning #compatible #conscience #innocence #parent

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#around #backyard #before #being #being there

Both of my parents were musicians. ↗

— Bryan White

#musicians #parents #were

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system. ↗

— Steven Chu

#determining #factor #families #only #other

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. ↗

— John Ciardi

#every #father #his #hope #house