#rent

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#angeles #childhood #different #different place #far

Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of pick-that-up and you’re-going-to-be-late, keepers of the diary of her duties and routines, memories, rather, of when they found one another afresh, beyond the tensions between parental mastery and inept childish uncertainty, of those moments of respite in a family’s life when they could reach one another in calm ↗

— Philip Roth

#parenthood #family

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#cause #change #decadence #different #different ways

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#get #government #kick #need #pants

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#different #different things #figure #figure skating #glide

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#characters #different #different characters #difficult #find

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#anything #child #doing #films #friends

I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#back #family #going #grew #i

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#best #different #feel #feeling #foreign

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cell #fact #family #genes #grasses