Parents Quotes
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My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today.
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There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents and children, Elvis, Apollo, Walt Whitman, rhythms of its politics. Manthology is a remarkably honest and enormously heartening collection.
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I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.
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I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.
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'I wish my parents took good care of their grow-op.'
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Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously journeyed abroad to bond with our extended family.
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Good parents are always on time. So are good CEOs.
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Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.
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My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.
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My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.
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While my seemingly compulsive school-hopping has raised some eyebrows among my peers and caused my parents understandable consternation, I do not regret it.
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My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we'd string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool - they saw it as a form of self-expression.
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My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
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I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.
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If you have a famous parent, you know that being famous doesn't make you superior to anyone else. It just means people smile at you more. Everyone was fawning all over my father, but of course, the way you look at your parents when you're a teen is often with a... more critical eye.
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Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.
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My parents knew there was no point in pushing the football thing. I hated the boots.
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The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.
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As a kid, I thought movies were boring. My parents would hire VHS recorders for the weekend and watch Bollywood movies. I'd get bored and go out to Stoke Newington common to play football.
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My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.
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A Korean reporter once asked me, 'Do you think your Korean parents are ashamed because you talk about what you talk about on stage?' I said, 'I don't think they're ashamed because they're Korean. I think any parents would be ashamed.'
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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
