#parent

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. ↗

— Dave Barry

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I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib. ↗

— Woody Allen

#crib #i #liked #live #me

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#cancers #chronic #dad #ended #had

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#dealing #divorce #especially #humour #left

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#hardest #jobs #parenting

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. ↗

— Robert Ballard

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A mother who is really a mother is never free. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#free #mother #never #really #who

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#correction #parents

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#avenue #bronx #davidson #grandparents #had

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#better #bill #bill gates #billionaires #carnegie