#parent

I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives. ↗

— Deion Sanders

#always #i #i always #lives #make

Congress has a legitimate interest in making sure that a practice that appears to reduce disease and healthcare costs remains available to parents. And, nothing in my bill prohibits statewide law ensuring that male circumcision occurs in a hygienic manner. ↗

— Brad Sherman

#available #bill #care costs #congress #costs

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry. ↗

— Joni Eareckson Tada

#fathers #love #parenting #love

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#born #both #circumstances #i #i was born

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. ↗

— David Sedaris

#apartment #art #basement #both #civilizations

Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us? ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#life #parents #righteousness #change

Often people ask, "How can you say you're blessed to have a son with Down syndrome?" My outlook on life has forever changed. I see my own challenges differently. He's always showing me that life is so much bigger than self. ↗

— Yvonne Pierre

#inspirational #life #parent #parenting #special-needs

I knew she was not telling me the truth. I asked her again what had happned because I don't like it when she keeps something from me. She's not allowed. Because when she lies, someting inside me changes, and it's like the WHOLE WORLD is one way and I'm the other. Like I can't trust a thing, as if the whole world knows a secret I don't and I'm running around from person to person asking them to tell me but they won't and the more I don't know what is going on the more scared I become and I feel myself drifting farther and farther away from everyone. ↗

— Jack Gantos

#change

I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults. ↗

— Brené Brown

#courage #parenting #courage

Why do you think, A.J.," they say in unison, "that you find these boys so attractive?" I didn't say that this fiery chemical explosion leaps from somewhere inside me. Parents don't want to hear these things. I shrugged and said nothing. "Maybe you should try sitting on the intensity," Mom suggests, "just until your feelings catch up with reality." "We could chain you to the water heater," Dad offers, "until these little moments pass." You see what I'm up against. ↗

— Joan Bauer

#family-relationships #hormones #humor #parental-advice #parents