Parents Quotes
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My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar.
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I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had not paid them back. They could have said 'No,' and it would have ended, and I would have gotten a real job.
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My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?
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As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.
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I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.
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Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
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Being acknowledged and appreciated by your child and stepchild is the greatest gift for all the hard work we put in as parents.
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Where is a book before it is born? Does a book grow like a tree? Who are a book's parents? Does a book need two parents - a mother and a father? Can a book be born inside another book? And where is the parent book of books?
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I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.
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My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
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The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.
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I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
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I don't have a flat anywhere. I'm registered in the U.K. for tax purposes, I suppose, and my mail goes to my parents.
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We've had a lot of parents ask questions about the program.
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I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which we didn't have in the '60s and '70s.
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I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.
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I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.
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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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Looking back, I can genuinely say that I am truly grateful that my parents sheltered us from the public eye. This may sound like an easy task, but it was probably the hardest thing they had to figure out as parents - how to give their kids a normal childhood even though they were always in the spotlight.
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I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents to make me clean my room and stuff
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When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.
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My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.
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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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I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
