#rents

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. ↗

— Robert Neelly Bellah

#child #children #frightening #home #however

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#become #know #love #never #ourselves

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#debt #economy #family #parents #family

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#cling #emotional #growth #home #leave

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children. ↗

— Mark Udall

#borrowing #children #earth #haven #i

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line. ↗

— Adrien Brody

#far less #grew #i #kept #less

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time. ↗

— Tory Burch

#any #dogs #farm #german #given

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#connection #differentiate #educators #learning #many

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#both #course #father #life #like

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#actual #breathe #called #eating #grandparents