#parent

My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#believe #better #bingo #built #business

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child. ↗

— Debra Messing

#believed #best #child #education #gift

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler. ↗

— Samuel Morse

#being #character #condition #employer #having

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#anomaly #apparent #corps #existence #interest

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses. ↗

— Christopher Parker

#basically #class #could #courses #did

Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'm nobody's girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#brother #clings #door #girl #i

What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays. ↗

— Bill Janklow

#arsonist #couple #create #days #god

If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality. ↗

— Henry Cloud

#parenting #experience

Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#blood #cannot #first #first of all #get

If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents. ↗

— January Jones

#could #i #if i could #nicer #one thing