Parents Quotes

• That was really strange, having to come up with a new surname [when my agent deemed my birth name too hard for people to remember]. After a long decision making process, me and my parents agreed on Lara because that was the name that sounded the most beautiful.

  

  Alexandra Maria Lara
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • Real
  • Job

• I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in Vegas called 'Love's Way.'

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Parents
  • Vegas

• My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

  

  Akhil Sharma
  • Parents

• Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

  

  Koichi Tanaka
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Acceptance

• All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Hate
  • Racism
  • Grandparents

• My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

  

  Micky Dolenz The Monkees
  • Father
  • Actor
  • Actress

• I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn't mean you should.

  

  Meg Rosoff
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Remember

• Compared with the rest of the Royal Family, Charles is a thoroughly Renaissance man, moved by beauty, music, and art in a way that largely passes his parents, his siblings, and his sons by.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Music
  • Family
  • Art

• I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.

  

  Kerry Greenwood
  • Parents
  • Smart

• My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • She
  • Experience
  • Mother

• I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship
  • Wife

• No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.

  

  H. Bentley Glass
  • Time
  • Children
  • Future

• The Washington-knows-best approach has repeatedly failed the very children it proposes to help. It's time to roll back Common Core and return education to the people who it matters most to - children, parents, and teachers.

  

  Jeff Duncan
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.

  

  Veronica Webb
  • Great
  • Army
  • Depression

• Too often, our most vulnerable students - English-language learners, immigrants, poor kids, teenage parents, students with behavioral problems and learning disabilities - fall through the cracks.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Kids
  • Learning
  • Fall

• My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Different
  • Children
  • Feeling

• One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money.

  

  Xochi Birch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that.

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house.

  

  Bronagh Gallagher
  • Up
  • House
  • Singing

• I'm lucky my parents travel with me.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Parents
  • Travel

• We are all frustrated with computers, all the time... But we also always develop a relationship with computers these days - something my parents never had... there%u2018s always a kind of negotiation, sometimes you are in tune with it and other times you are fighting with it.

  

  Wade Guyton
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Technology

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