Parents Quotes
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What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.
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That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
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As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.
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My parents are kind of young, and my dad always listened to rock music and stuff like that, so I sort of grew up around that. As far as acting goes, I didn't really have any major influences because it wasn't really something that I focused on.
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I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.
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The good thing about my part in 'Harry Potter' was that I was pretty well disguised. When I was walking down the street, there was no real recognition factor. Parents would sometimes call their children to come say hello to Mad-Eye, and the kids wouldn't know what they were looking at.
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I learned everything I know about music from my parents and my sisters.
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Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.
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I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
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Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind.
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When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.
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I feel very, very lucky to have come from the family I did. We have our dysfunctions and our problems, just like any family. But my parents are extremely loving people.
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My parents didn't want me to go into show business. They were afraid of what would happen if I didn't succeed. They wanted me to get married and have babies. I never saw marriage and family in my life.
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Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.
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Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?
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My parents wanted their daughters to reach their full potential. I joke that they said, 'We left our homeland so you could pursue your dreams - as long as you're a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer.'
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I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.
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When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.
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My dad, he would go through these periods of self-doubt. We'd do something that was controversial or that wasn't welcomed by everybody, and he'd go, 'Well, Shirley, our parents cursed us with ethics, and we passed it on to our children.'
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Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.
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Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?
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My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.
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I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that.
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One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are making the choice of whether to send their girls to school. And they are struggling with lack of water, lack of firewood, and lack of care for their youngest children. And those burdens fall on the girls.
