#parent

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#being #else #everyone #how #i

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective. ↗

— Trey Parker

#kids #like #lot #more #once

She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi- much less try to develop a meaningful relationship- since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky. ↗

— Vivian Vande Velde

#funny #geek #girls #heir-apparent #dreams

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#lisp #nests #parentheses #pens #programmer

And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#got #grandparents #had #i #i think

People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective. ↗

— Katy Perry

#agree #always #bad #been #case

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside. ↗

— Katy Perry

#i #idea #lived #no idea #outside

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. ↗

— Katy Perry

#change #children #coexist #grew #grow

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents. ↗

— Luke Perry

#i #i think #jumping #kids #off

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree. ↗

— Katy Perry

#anymore #change #children #coexist #disagree