#rents

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#naive #oh #parents #tangled #their

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#century #early #freedom #immigrants #jewish

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. ↗

— George Orwell

#advertisement #christian #christian religion #religion #socialism

Parents will purchase the dot-com name for their baby. We have been aware of some instances where somebody didn't name their child a particular name because the dot-com wasn't available. ↗

— Bob Parsons

#aware #baby #because #been #child

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#divorce #families #family-saga #forgetting #life

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write. ↗

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#before #cast #chest #childish #five

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more. ↗

— Barry Humphries

#even #fact #hated #i #more

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#always #fact #feelings #force #friends

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#family-relationships #parents-and-children #age

Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#blood #cannot #first #first of all #get