LZ Granderson The ugly truth is it’s the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids. – LZ Granderson Children Quotes Dislike Quotes Kids Quotes Parade Quotes Parents Quotes People Quotes Royalty Quotes Spineless Quotes Truth Quotes Ugly Quotes Undisciplined Quotes We’re so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we’re inadvertently excusing them from growing up. Heroes aren’t supposed to do bad things. That’s what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don’t like it when such duality exists in one person. We don’t want to know our heroes are human.
Cherie Blair Many of the big decisions over progression, promotion and future career trajectory are taken when people are in their late twenties and thirties, putting women at a huge disadvantage because this is the very time they are most likely to be having a break to have children. – Cherie Blair
James Ward-Prowse I was taken to my first game at Fratton Park. I was so tiny I just remember sitting on dad’s knee eating sweets! – James Ward-Prowse
Keith Whitley I laid my country music aside for quite a while… because bluegrass audiences didn’t care to hear it. But it just kept haunting me. – Keith Whitley
AngerZach Galifianakis As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger. – Zach Galifianakis
Tabatha Coffey My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn’t do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life. – Tabatha Coffey
Sarah Weinman Sue Grafton’s ‘A Is for Alibi’, the 1982 novel that introduced the world to private detective Kinsey Millhone, wasn’t seen as the pioneering achievement we now know it to be. – Sarah Weinman
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