#parent

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#better #between #continue #conversations #endless

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#could #easily #had #kept #life

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#children #ever #fitness #important #imposed

One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday. ↗

— Bobby Sherman

#built #disneyland #fell #i #kid

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#i #like #old #parents #still

I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#children #exist #going #grandparents #i

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#bed #better #better life #children #emigrated

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids. ↗

— Morley Safer

#just #kids #like #parents #their

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. ↗

— Richard Russo

#bring #child #different #does #dramatic

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#balance #confirmation #face #friends #i