#parents

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#being #believed #business #business person #doctor

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#first #generation #growing #growing up #guess

We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#busted #dad #family #heavily #issues

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent. ↗

— Donal Logue

#booze #car #could #former #friends

I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents. ↗

— Jeremy London

#i #life #like #my life #parents

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother. ↗

— John Lone

#become #eventually #father #friend #grew

I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces. ↗

— Melissa Auf der Maur

#born #down-to-earth #grew #i #i was born

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#bed #gets #greatest #greatest thing #hope

It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#autistic #cares #child #dinner #else

Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#burden #care #cost #entire #greater