#parent

I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it's difficult to top them. So what's the point? ↗

— Georgia Jagger

#i #i think #mine #parents #point

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life. ↗

— Georgia Jagger

#even #family #family life #had #jobs

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man. ↗

— LeBron James

#any #being #comes #ever #forget

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#force #immediate #parent #principle #vital

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#child #did #ever #hand #i

And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time. ↗

— Lara St. John

#curry #least #life #like #long

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#collection #deep #deep purple #first #i

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#am #britain #brutally #determined #honest

At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55. ↗

— Erica Jong

#afford #beijing #bouncing #certain #chinese

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. ↗

— Erica Jong

#ambivalent #babies #being #being human #best