Billy Connolly Quotes

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

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• Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • War
  • Parents

• Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Hard Work

• One of my brothers, Eric, who is one year older than me, was actually the first one to start boxing, and being the youngest sibling, I wanted to do what he did, so I pushed my parents to let me join.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Parents
  • Year
  • Boxing

• My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Spend

• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Parents

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Choose

• To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Brother

• I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Parents

• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Parents

• According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

  

  Questlove
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Dad

• We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• My parents were very artistic, but busy.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Parents
  • Very
  • Busy

• My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Parents
  • Loving
  • Were

• Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Parents

• I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Fear

• There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Truth

• The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • World
  • Space
  • Training

• I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • People
  • Perfect

• My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

  

  Billy Connolly
  • Parents
  • Pet