#parent

While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#financial #financial support #gave #greatest #had

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#cheerfulness #discontent #failure #i #indeed

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#business #conservation #enterprise #exist #fails

My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business. ↗

— Haley Joel Osment

#being #business #carried #elements #extraneous

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. ↗

— Amos Oz

#cultured #more #parents #scale #something

I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn. ↗

— Paula Yates

#bathroom #collecting #ever #family #father

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#borrowing #card #children #enjoy #give

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

I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.' ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#always #best #done #elections #especially