#parent

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#divorced #i #kids #live #parents

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. ↗

— Horace

#experience #instruction #life #name #parent

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. ↗

— Horace

#born #consequence #long #man #merit

If I had been living through the '80s, I probably would've gotten into a lot more trouble than my parents. ↗

— Julianne Hough

#gotten #had #i #into #living

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children. ↗

— Jane Howard

#around #avoid #children #doom #fact

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#exercise #family #grandmothers #grandparents #humor

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#parenting

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#business #i #i do #job #parent

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#bath #facts #fish #giving #life

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#admit #average #child #find #his