#parent

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

— Doug Coupland

#harder #more #opposite #parents #quickly

The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#apparently #bears #before #come #conviction

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#father #me #mother #protected #threatened

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

I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium. ↗

— Zach Braff

#great #great relationship #i #parents #relationship

It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions. ↗

— Harry Browne

#been #believe #competent #decisions #long