#raisin

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#anything #besides #child #children #divorce

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#about #brad #children #comes #compares

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#least #lot #politics #side #which

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#could #easily #had #kept #life

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#any #defense #exists #idea #institution

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation. ↗

— John Stossel

#business #called #competition #consumers #criticizing

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#children #cumulative #each #gained #generation

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. ↗

— Ed Asner

#joy #kids #part #raising #warfare

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night! ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#change #child #children #diapers #feed

Make sure she can reach you 24hours a day. ↗

— Harry H. Harrison Jr.

#raising-a-girl #raising-kids #family