#parent

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else. ↗

— Jung Chang

#become #brought #chairman #chairman mao #children

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#children #doctors #had #her #house

For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor. ↗

— Albert Claude

#basic #billion #cell #distant #endless

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#about #birthday #birthday party #career #children

If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents. ↗

— Frances Bean Cobain

#fan #get #hole #i #know

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#despair #every #god #merciful #much

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#ceo #giving #i #know #line

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised. ↗

— Colin Firth

#been #complicity #engaged #grandparents #grown

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#grill #grilling #jersey #jersey shore #lobster

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#believe #crazy #grow #grow up #i