#parent

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!" ↗

— George Will

#boy #duck #give #guns #like

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary. ↗

— Victor Borge

#i #i wish #making #necessary #parents

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#apparently #delight #heaven #long #men

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply. ↗

— T. Berry Brazelton

#care #deeply #make #mistakes #parents

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. ↗

— Jacques Delille

#choice #friends #makes #our #parents

I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day. ↗

— Bridget Fonda

#day #i #i can #mean #nasty

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#bill #bought #enlisted #got #home

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#kid #parents #used

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance. ↗

— Mary C. Jones

#apparent #been #complete #completely #disturbance

I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids! ↗

— Moira Kelly

#asking #city #college #even #i