Parents Quotes
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I grew up with a sister and a younger brother in a house where every evening was spent performing a dance routine in front of our parents with my sister.
Disha Patani -
In this filmy world, you will have success today but may not have it tomorrow. But if you are prepared to face the challenge it throws, that's when you should venture in this industry. I was ready for this and had all sorts of support from my parents.
Armaan Malik
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I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there's no one like your mother.
Yance Ford -
I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.
Dwyane Wade -
The bigger goal of giving all parents more choices is one that will have to be discussed and undoubtedly roundly debated, but we are going to have to continue to build the case. The momentum is there on the state level in many states. That's where the energy needs to be harnessed in a new way.
Betsy DeVos -
We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.
Jeffrey Donovan -
The challenge of writing books for teenagers is walking the fine line between truth and what the publishers, parents, and the more conservative librarians want to hear.
Annette Curtis Klause -
My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.
Levon Helm
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I was a rebel. I went to Carmel Convent in Delhi where I was a complete rebel. I thought I was 12 going on 18. I wanted to go out with friends older to me, stay out late - my parents were horrified. It was then that we began having our first disagreements.
Lillete Dubey -
My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.
Fannie Lou Hamer -
Mo: I wish it were me instead of you.Sydney: Yeah. I'm getting the sodium pentothal. You have to go sit with my parents.
Alison Bechdel -
And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.
Cyril Ramaphosa -
I have really musical parents, and my dad was always encouraging, but the desire to get onstage and perform really did come from me. I'd never push my future children.
Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
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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.
Meghann Fahy -
My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.
Max von Sydow -
Both my parents work in film. They're crew. I love movies, and I just wanted to be involved. I got really lucky. I auditioned for a while and then started making films.
Kristen Stewart -
My parents just had faith in me, and thank God they did. They weren't stage parents in the slightest.
Lili Reinhart -
My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark -
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.
Emma Watson
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I trust Colorado families and teachers way more than I trust D.C. central planners who think they know better than parents do.
Darryl Glenn -
I feel a kind of intellectual regret, not an emotional regret, at having left my parents and that world behind. But it's not a great weight on my soul. In a way I wish it were. To leave one’s background without guilt is an indication of shallowness of character, I suspect.
John Banville -
I entered this glam world by luck. I wanted to join dancing classes since I was a child, but my parents never gave me the permission to do so, as no one in our family had ever chosen this path. Fortunately, I got my first break in a reality show easily due to my dance skills, so that way I have been lucky.
Amruta Khanvilkar -
What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you.
Angelina Jolie