Parents Quotes

My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.

Annette Bening
- Parents
If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

Jenny McCarthy
- Up
- Children
- Autism

The most important thing parents can do, although it's not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids.

Angela Duckworth
- Important
- Kids
- Model
I was very conscious of the film industry - a lot of people, neighbors, worked in it. I actually grew up doing a bit of extra work myself. I was homeschooled, and it was a way that I could make money. My parents let us do these jobs, and I never got very far, but I was much more interested in what everybody else was doing, and I liked being on set.

Martine Syms
- People
- Up
- Work
I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.

Iman
- Parents
- You
- Me
We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

Ella Maillart
- Children
- House
- Earth
I grew up having the library as the best place ever. I spent a lot of weekends there as a kid - my parents would drop me off and leave me there all day. I would just sit in the back and read whatever I could find.

Karin Slaughter
- Up
- Day
- Best
My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.

Jessica Valenti
- Work
- Together
- Mother