“I have 4 kids already, I don’t need anymore. I’m a single parent. I’m taking them through Europe and make them play funny instruments.” NeedsPlayKidsParentEuropeInstrumentsSingle Parent Author:Ville Valo
“The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service.” WritingKindTwoDifferentParentMilitarySonPoetEuropeReactionsDifferent KindsProtectiveDistortionAnthologyCompulsoryMilitary Service Author:Laura Riding
“Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.” ChildrenTodayAmericaHouseParentBornChanceGrowing UpGrowingCoupleMarriedEuropeReverenceUnitsSwedenUnmarriedMarried Couples Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Many upscale American parents somehow think jobs like their own are part of the nation's natural order. They are not. In Europe, they have already discovered that, and many there have accepted the new small-growth, small-jobs reality. Will we?” ThinkingRealityJobsOrderNationsParentGrowthNaturalEuropeAcceptedNatural OrderSmall Jobs Author:Daniel Henninger
“In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.” YoungParentCommonTaxesEuropePopulationMake SenseContinentsDensityPopulation Density Author:Rosecrans Baldwin
“We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will fit into the pattern of society, That is what every parent wants, is it not? And that is exactly what is happening, whether it be in America or in Europe, in Russia or in India. The pattern may vary slightly, but they all want the child to conform.” WayWantMindMayChildrenAmericaParentFitShapesHappeningsEuropeIndiaPatternsRussiaConformVary Book:Collected Works of J Krishnamurti 1956-1957: A Light to Yourself Source: Collected Works of J Krishnamurti 1956-1957: A Light to Yourself
“My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect, they are no real part of it.” ThinkingRealParentEuropeContinentsSomewhere Else Author:John Gimlette
“There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.” IfsChildrenLittlesYoungParentToo MuchHairMomTerribleAdultsEuropeDistanceYoung AdultSizeMy MomGet UpBowsShut UpTalk To MeSmall ChildGood ParentGreat Parents Author:Maya Angelou
“I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.” AmericaParentBornMy OwnNew YorkMy FriendsEuropeIncludingImmigrants Author:Christopher Walken
“My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.” ChildrenParentDemocracyGenerationsEuropeCzechoslovakia Author:Madeleine Albright
“In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents” KidsAmericaThreeParentResultsWifeEuropeCanadaJapanThree Times Author:Phil Collins