"If you could choose your parents, you could probably eat anything."
The secret to successful aging is to choose your parents wisely.
Other than choosing your parents well, the main difference between the athletic champion and the rest of us is mental toughness.
In part, he probably chose his parents well.
The problem governing adolescence, it turned out, wasn't that you didn't get to choose your parents.
There were belief systems in which a child was presumed to have chosen its parents.
Obviously we cannot choose our parents but we can do a great deal to improve the shape, form and texture of these problem areas.
You chose your parents and gave birth to yourself.
"People don't get to choose their parents or the kind of life they have as a child," she said quietly.
Now the boy first has to choose his parents.