#parent

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#ago #believing #better #both #comes

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#becoming #close #door #i #kids

Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?' ↗

— Natasha Henstridge

#casually #check #cute #deal #even

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity. ↗

— James Hillman

#body #circumstances #elected #myth #necessity

The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten. ↗

— James Hillman

#body #choice #circumstances #curse #forgotten

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough. ↗

— James Hillman

#been #childhoods #enough #many #memories

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#i #look #lot #mentor #never

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#carolina #child #financial #financial aid #i

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#hence #microscope #past #past time #present

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#art #art of war #became #castle #chieftain