“When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.” YoungParentGoes OnMy FamilyTownsWestTexasCircusCemeteryDisneylandWest Texas Author:Jenny Lawson
“In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.” KnowsBigsValuesParentMy OwnGoes OnHigherProtectionHouseholdAsianDiscouragementHigher Education Author:Sandra Oh
“70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.” PeopleChildrenCountryStatesFactsOpportunityParentBornUnitedNumbersClassPovertyUnited StatesMiddleGoes OnTruth IsIncomeUncomfortableCanadaMiddle ClassOther Countries Author:Marco Rubio
“I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people” PeopleIfsYearsLittlesDifferentDonePlayShowsRememberUsedNightParentClassGroupsRocksGoes OnLowsMadSingersEducatedKneesIf I CouldSaturdaySaturday NightDisapproving Author:Mick Jagger
“The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on” PeopleWorldWantChildrenMadeDifferentHelpingLightRunningLyingParentTeachOur LivesGoes OnAdultsStructureDinnerListsTeethFatsFairyLive ByConventionalEasterFrozenHighwaysSantaFairytaleSanta ClausBunniesConventional WisdomTooth FairyEaster Bunny Book:Hilarity Ensues Source: Hilarity Ensues
“In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.” YearsChildrenDoeMadeGirlParentWomenEducationCompanyGoes OnEnglandBusyEaseEtc Author:Fanny Burney
“I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.” ThinkingWantChildrenImportantParentJourneyGoes OnAdopted Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.” KnowsHeartMayChildrenStillsSoulSometimesPainFacesSufferingDiesParentChallengesLordSacrificeGoes OnPrayingCircumstancesTerribleAdversityIllIllnessMissionsMissionaryDisabledHeart And SoulChronic Pain Author:David E. Sorensen
“Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.” MenChildrenCountrySongParentGoes OnGrandmotherParent ChildGranddaughter Author:PJ Harvey
“I think the need to go on stage speaks to some sort of a profound psychological deficit, but something that happened when you were a kid. Or something your parents did.” ThinkingNeedsKidsSpeakParentHappenedStageGoes OnProfoundPsychologicalDeficit Author:W. Kamau Bell
“My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.” PeopleThinkingMadeAbleSchoolMotherWishParentTeacherWonderfulCollegeGoes OnHigh SchoolHillsAffluentDiplomaExtremityAppalachiaWonderful TeacherHigh School Diploma Author:Dwight Yoakam
“My parents probably feel closer to the U.S. They feel America came to our rescue in the war and all that sort of thing. And for their generation the war still goes on. We still save food and little bits get scraped off and boiled out the next day.” FeelsLittlesStillsWarAmericaNextBitsParentGenerationsGoes OnLittle BitRescueNext Day Author:John Gimlette
“That's what we do on "MasterChef," on "Junior." No school teachers, no parents, let it go. You're going to go on a challenge. We're going to go to hell and back, and we're going to have some bumps.” SchoolParentChallengesHellTeacherGoes OnLet It GoJuniorsBumpsGo To HellSchool TeachersHell And BackMasterchef Author:Gordon Ramsay
“It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.” ChildrenCareKidsParentGoes OnDinnerVacationTypicalImperativesAutisticAutistic Children Author:Jenny McCarthy