#parent

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives. ↗

— Kenny Guinn

#children #families #important #influence #lives

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives. ↗

— Chris Hemsworth

#growing #growing up #heroes #lives #parents

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write. ↗

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#before #cast #chest #childish #five

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#care #commitment #contraception #coverage #firmly

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up. ↗

— Morton Hunt

#children #desert #disadvantage #good #good parent

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more. ↗

— Barry Humphries

#even #fact #hated #i #more

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#always #fact #feelings #force #friends

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#family-relationships #parents-and-children #age

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#mothers #neglect #old-age #parents #sentimentality

Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're doing when you're supposed to be asleep is great. I was rocking the bedroom. That was so much more fun when I got the 1200s. ↗

— Jam Master Jay

#bedroom #doing #fun #going #got