#parent

Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it. ↗

— Barbara Coloroso

#children #choice #gift #give #given

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#me #parents #pet #take #tell

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#adopted #city #east #east side #eight

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#parents #people #point #still #who

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#just #justice #parents #quiet #really

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.' ↗

— Bill Cosby

#acting #body #dead #every #fool

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#harder #more #opposite #parents #quickly

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#adolescent #character #gas #his #installment

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#blame #first #if at first #parents #succeed

I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead. ↗

— Mary Crosby

#agent #because #card #dead #forget