#parents

As parents, we need to talk to young people about drugs and make sure they understand that drugs are dangerous, addictive substances that can ruin their lives and harm their communities. ↗

— John Walters

#addictive #communities #dangerous #harm #lives

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children. ↗

— Rick Warren

#believe #children #i #illegitimate #parents

My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#ever #face #gave #i #life

I would say that my parents were supportive of me. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#me #parents #say #supportive #were

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#around #born #both #bristol #english

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat. ↗

— Allen West

#atlanta #born #city #combat #commission

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#always #case #child #could #felt

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#agreed #children #classroom #commonly #conversation

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#cameras #classrooms #greater #parents #substitute

Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#because #clear #difference #even #going