#parents

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#house #inside #lived #parents #pillows

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#equal #importance #least #only #parents

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#ashamed #been #being #grandparents #having

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? ↗

— Gabrielle Hamilton

#becoming-your-parents #family #growing-up #humor #parents

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad. ↗

— Fannie Flagg

#bad #being #both #child #early

Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don't really have anymore. ↗

— Tyler Florence

#cook #cooks #delicious #house #i

exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #parents #relationships #faith

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#being #break #country #explain #flattened

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on. ↗

— Anna Friel

#back #be happy #could #doing #education

There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#because #each #had #hooked #kind