Parents Quotes
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The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.
Ben Mendelsohn -
I've already put my parents through the wringer with a number of my jobs!
Ari Graynor
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When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.
Michael King -
We were very kooky and inventive, and it didn't take long for my parents to realize we should all be auditioning for things.
Ashley Williams -
I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.
Anne-Marie Duff -
I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.
Marian Wright Edelman -
To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
Marian Wright Edelman -
I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.
Antonia Eugenia Vardalos
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My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.
Joanne Rowling -
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
Bill Gates -
I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.
Boris Becker -
Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.
L. Tom Perry -
I love kids, and I think I would be a great dad. I had great parents, and my mother and father are my best friends, so I'd have good examples to lead from.
Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band -
I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.
Leander Paes
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My parents were big film buffs.
Alden Ehrenreich -
My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.
Gabe Polsky -
When I grew up, I realised what an amazing thing my parents did. It was such a big deal for my mom, a middle class woman, to decide to leave her children and husband to go and do her Ph.D. for three years. And my dad, who is even more middle class, a traditional South Indian, to let his wife do that.
Swara Bhaskar -
My parents raised me that way: to appreciate what I have and pass it along to others.
Katrina Adams -
I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.
Joelle Carter -
My parents worked very hard for me and my sister.
Paolo Nutini
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I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease - I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.
Ariel Levy -
I feel for all the parents whose babies just keep waking up for years. My heart and back go out to you guys! You are my heroes, and I am not fit to walk in your shoes!
Constance Marie -
Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.
James MacArthur -
I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.
Lena Dunham