#parent

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#contempt #hold #just #may #parents

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#denial #fail #forgiveness #generation #hear

He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me? ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#forgiveness #parenting #sam-roth #forgiveness

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young. ↗

— Kim Wilde

#anything #appreciate #best #business #close

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time. ↗

— Kim Wilde

#i #long #long time #many #marriage

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#boarding school #bus #few #home #i

My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#career #cleaning #dishes #had #i

One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#brother #dad #day #first #goal

Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#because #believe #consider #doing #even

It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed. ↗

— Fay Wray

#being #better #developed #friendships #getting