Parents Quotes
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My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts.
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My parents listened to a lot of music when I was really little. They used to listen to people like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and I used to be really into that.
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I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
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I think - you know, the big trauma in my life, personally, was the fact that at 14, I was taken out of Poland unwittingly because my parents were divorced. Left the country - my mother left for England with her new husband. I wasn't even aware that she'd married him.
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When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.
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People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.
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To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.
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It's such an honor to just represent the U.S. in the country where my parents immigrated from, and just this whole process has been amazing, and this journey has been so fun and full of so many memories that I will hold on to for the rest of my life.
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My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
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It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!
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My parents were more surprised that I wanted to go away for school than anything. They didn't really understand the benefits.
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I'm quite good at going away from home. I don't live with my parents or anything. But it is tough when you're so far away from everyone.
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The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found them when I was ten; I didn't know what it was. But I found Lightnin' Hopkins.
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Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
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And after every audition I booked, my parents would buy me a Barbie, so that was it for me: You got a Barbie, and you got to hang out with friends. And I thought it was just the best thing ever.
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Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
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Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far as I can remember, my parents have taught me to be really proud of my name.
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I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago. When I was eight, I was confused at being called 'bossy,' because I wanted to direct the plays that we would put on for our parents - but the boys were not.
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I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.
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I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that's just - you know, I can't walk around people like I'm, like, straight-up American. It's like, I'm Korean American. My parents are from Korea.
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Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years.
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While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.
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Both my parents are Italian. My mom was born and raised in Italy. My dad was born in Canada, but then they moved to Italy.
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It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She sounds fine." They didn't know. To them, I spoke perfect English because their accents were so heavy. I don't even want to know what I sounded like. I don't want to know!
