#parent

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#control #felt #had #i #mother

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#child #different #i #i am #now

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#friendship #like #love #no love #parent

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#church #grew #i #methodist #parents

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#articulate #child #expresses #hears #individual

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#i #love #loved #make #me

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. ↗

— Arna Bontemps

#anyone #colored #critic #dare #how

My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#choice #either #formed #gang #had

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#actually #children #generation #give #going

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#already #always #asleep #children #even