#parent

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had. ↗

— Gail Devers

#any #athlete #became #because #brother

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit. ↗

— Stephen Dunn

#because #been #bit #both #die

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#compared #dallas #dummy #friends #gave

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#been #funny #half #i #i am

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#balance #based #care #characters #close

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#after #any #apparent #consciousness #even

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#being #believe #desire #directly #disposes

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#bill #children #debt #father #forward

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.' ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#daughters #dinner #finish #growing #growing up

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult. ↗

— David Frost

#adult #all night #child #healthy #love