#parent

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#articulate #child #expresses #hears #individual

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#i #love #loved #make #me

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#bible #both #connection #god #i

My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#always #been #exclusively #i #lucky

My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. She goes completely on her feelings of things, on her intuition, and so she instilled that in my brothers and I. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#always #been #brothers #completely #exclusively

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents. ↗

— Prince Charles

#learned #learns #monkey #parents #watching

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#less #model #more #more than anything #parent

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. ↗

— Nancy Chodorow

#entails #less #lower #occupation #outside

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#committed #convinced #me #parents #paris

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#adopted #city #east #east side #eight