Diego Luna Quotes
I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.
Quotes to Explore
-
Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
-
My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
-
I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
-
People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
-
My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
-
The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
-
I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.
-
I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
-
When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
-
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
-
I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
-
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
-
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
-
It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.
-
I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.
-
It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.
-
My whole thing, my priority, is my family, my kids, and my wife. That's my future. I don't really care about what role is next.
-
Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
-
I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.
-
A lot of my colleagues just don't really realize that they have to work in order to get the interest of an audience, especially with young kids, especially because it [classical music] is not that popular. You don't see it on TV, you don't hear it on radio, so you really gotta put an effort into promoting classical music.
-
I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But when my father got arrested, I really didn't have a choice. I was the oldest son, and it was something that had to be done.
-
Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?
-
I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
-
I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.
