#parent

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down. ↗

— Jerry Rice

#came #down #ethic #failure #fear

My parents don't really watch movies at all. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#parents #really #watch

When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#career #go #heart #i #ill

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#art form #been #being #capable #draw

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#another #children #dad #did #fantasize

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#better #children #common #common sense #deserve

Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children. ↗

— Brad Sherman

#also #birth #case #child #children

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#cause #dante #eyes #god #ground

I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs. ↗

— Franka Potente

#annoyed #arrows #because #bedrooms #brother

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#apparently #around #beyond #corner #eye