#parent

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. ↗

— Russell Baker

#before #children #curiosity #finally #know

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#caused #distress #gave #grateful #i

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#admiral #apartment #brother #colonel #common

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me. ↗

— Lance Bass

#favorite #favorite things #grew #i #i love

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies. ↗

— Lance Bass

#care #dream #family #give #give me

I'm the only gay person my parents know. ↗

— Lance Bass

#i #know #only #parents #person

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#attempt #because #cultural #culture #dna

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#becoming #difficult #found #i #i write

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#am #because #childhood #farmer #father

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice. ↗

— Leon Kass

#choice #existence #our #owe #parents