#rents

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#called #cared #children #day #did

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#grown-up #i #liking #parents #peaceful

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#alive #became #brilliant #fed #great

I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance. ↗

— Geena Davis

#action #after #compliance #find #i

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it. ↗

— Bonnie Blair

#always #i #liked #me #parents

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#become #boy #catholic #dame #his

My parents are retired, basically. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#parents #retired

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies. ↗