#parent

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#blaming #cards #dealt #did #failures

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#blueprints #child #definitely #dreams #enabled

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#families #far #kids #many #parents

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#freedom #human #human life #i #i wish

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#become #know #love #never #ourselves

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#debt #economy #family #parents #family

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#enough #exposure #get #i #kids

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#algerian #am #born #i #i am

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough. ↗

— Lisa Gardner

#love

Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents," I said. "They felt angry, resentful, and unloved, and they had a good reason." Zeus's royal nostrils flared. "You dare accuse-" "No more undetermined children," I said. "I want you to promise to claim your children-all your demigod children-by the time they turn thirteen. They won't be left out in the world on their own at the mercy of monsters. I want them claimed and brought to camp so they can be trained right, and survive." "Now, wait just a moment," Apollo said, but I was on a roll. "And the minor gods," I said. "Nemesis, Hecate, Morpheus, Janus, Hebe--they all deserve a general amnesty and a place at Camp Half-Blood. Their children shouldn't be ignored. Calypso and the other peaceful Titan-kind should be pardoned too. And Hades-" "Are you calling me a minor god?" Hades bellowed. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hades #percy-jackson #zeus #parenting