#parent

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#become #know #love #never #ourselves

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#debt #economy #family #parents #family

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#approach #good #good guys #guys #i

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#celery #clothes #cool #giant #i

My characters are often without a significant parental figure. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#figure #often #parental #significant #without

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#enough #exposure #get #i #kids

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#algerian #am #born #i #i am

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#cling #emotional #growth #home #leave

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough. ↗

— Lisa Gardner

#love

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#close #few #going #i #kids