#parent

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#just #justice #parents #quiet #really

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.' ↗

— Bill Cosby

#acting #body #dead #every #fool

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#harder #more #opposite #parents #quickly

The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#apparently #bears #before #come #conviction

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#father #me #mother #protected #threatened

When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword) ↗

— John Irving

#imagination #parenthood #death

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#develop #emotional #enjoy #enjoy life #healthy

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. ↗

— Bette Davis

#child #hated #never #parent #you

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. ↗

— Walt Disney

#children #could #family #have fun #idea

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.' ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#dough #get #kid #know #none