Parents Quotes
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My parents never told me about Papa's lung cancer or the desperate nature of the operations he was about to undergo, which were a last-ditch effort to contain the spread of his cancer.
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Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
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My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.
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Obviously, you want to teach your child between right and wrong, respect and being kind to others, whether it's their sisters or parents. You try to teach them by example, talk to them and explain certain situations. But there's also a time to put them in time out or let them know they've made a mistake and try to learn from it.
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When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.
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When you see the sacrifices that your parents make for you, you want to do well for them.
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Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.
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I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
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I don't take up too many projects at a time. I choose with care. I guess that clarity comes because my parents are from the industry.
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Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
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I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.
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My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.
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The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters, let's support leaders who were courageous enough to make the hard decisions necessary to move our system forward. And as parents, let's put our faith in our educators, our children and tests that hold them to their highest potential.
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I really believe that parents need to know they are shaping the future of their children.
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.
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We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made me and my twin brother Kiel read at least a book a week.
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I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.
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My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.
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I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.
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I have three brothers and one sister, and I'm the third child. Sometimes people say, 'It's only natural you would become a writer - your parents were English professors.' But my four siblings were brought up in the exact same household, and no one else became a writer or an English professor.
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I love the story of how my parents met because it seems very 1950s Brooklyn. They met on a brownstone stoop as my father was singing a little doo-wop.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.
