Thomas Friedman Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

  Thomas Friedman

  Education, Daughter, Mother

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

• I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.

  Thomas Friedman

  Running, Country, Kids

• 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

  Mom, War, Home

  Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum (2011). “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back”, p.12, Macmillan

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