#rents

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #lives #other #parents #run

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about! ↗

— Martha Quinn

#before #clueless #fuss #i #i see

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#had #i #involved #kid #law

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#because #daughter #done #everything #father

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with. ↗

— Shakira

#children #day #i #intensity #love

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#got #great #i #just #parents

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in. ↗

— Alexa Vega

#kids #need #open #parents #pushing

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me. ↗

— Forest Whitaker

#cows #every #farm #feeding #fields

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#bohemian #dad #fiction #had #i

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#bounce #encouraged #everyone #go #i