#rents

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#divorce #divorces #four #i #marriage

A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp. ↗

— Raymond Duncan

#lot #off #pack #parents #send

My parents didn't really know one another. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#know #parents #really

When my parents separated, I was very grateful. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#i #parents #separated #very

I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day. ↗

— Bridget Fonda

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My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#bill #bought #enlisted #got #home

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#entered #into #like #needed #our

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be. ↗

— Joan Jett

#could #i #me #parents #taught

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#assure #begins #children #educated #education

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#curriculum #kids #like #lurking #many