Parent Quotes
Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.
When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.
Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.
I don't like kissing on camera. It's bad enough to be caught kissing by your parents. But when you have a whole crew watching you, it's a little weird.
Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.
My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.
One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.
I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.
When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. I believed everything and everyone. Then, I met my parents!
You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.
My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.
Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents’ clout.
My parents have always been very supportive. I didnt go to school because my home was my school.
My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.
I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!
I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.
My mother kept alive the best part for my sister and me. At the same time, she's always been someone who's very straight and solid, which wasn't that -common in families with "'68er" parents.
Back then, as a kid, you could really just do whatever you wanted until your parents got home.
There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent.
I learned to play piano on my own and my parents thought "Oh it would be a good thing for you take piano lessons. That's the way you really need to learn to play the piano."
Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'
I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God.
I grew up in Siena and was surrounded by the Palio, and all my friends at school were obsessed with it. But since my parents are English, I was never quite part of it.
I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.
Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.
I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.
I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.
When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.
I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.
Technology changes the medium. I grew up on watching a box in my living room that made my parents happy. After something is gone, the dust will settle and I'll see what's next.
As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door.
Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent's poltical beliefs. Oooh! Aren't you a scary health care reform bill!
Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.
I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.
There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.
I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.
My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.
I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
