#parent

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#always #been #before #being #between

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #lot #only #parents #people

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#cause #earth #enterprise #grand #grand thing

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on. ↗

— Alexa Vega

#going #i #internet #life #parents

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#greatest #only #others #parent #virtues

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#had #i #neat #parents #people

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case. ↗

— James Ellroy

#fact #hate #in fact #lose #lost

That's my ideal day, time with my boys. ↗

— Kenny G

#day #ideal #time

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence. ↗

— Julius Erving

#basketball #before #being #ever #good

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#better #children #come #consistently #divorced