All Quotes

My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.
‐‐ Annabeth Gish

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner

My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.
‐‐ Julian Fellowes

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.
‐‐ Mike Wallace

My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.
‐‐ Takashi Murakami

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.
‐‐ Daniel Nathans

My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.
‐‐ Julie Salamon

My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books.
‐‐ Mathias Rust

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
‐‐ Alan Rickman

My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
‐‐ A. J. Buckley

My parents constantly tried to talk me out of being an artist. They had gone through the whole journey with my sister and just wanted me to have a normal teenage life.
‐‐ Solange Knowles

My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.
‐‐ Adam Pally

My parents could not be more Italian.
‐‐ Edoardo Ponti

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.
‐‐ Christopher Parker

My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.
‐‐ Ashton Kutcher

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.
‐‐ Channing Tatum

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
‐‐ Amber Tamblyn

My parents decided - because they were not going to teach us anything Jewish at home - to send both me and my sister to a Jewish primary school. So I went to Kerem Primary School in Hampstead Garden Suburb. But, for me, that school really didn't work that well.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.
‐‐ Marion Cotillard

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
‐‐ Justin Sane

My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.
‐‐ Robert Griffin III

My parents did an excellent job of bringing me up with values.
‐‐ Bruce Smith

My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn't afford to go there.
‐‐ Sabine Lisicki

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.
‐‐ Bonnie Hammer

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
‐‐ Jacob Epstein

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.
‐‐ Stockwell Day

My parents did not have any interest in music.
‐‐ Maurice Jarre

My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.
‐‐ Constance Wu

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
‐‐ Rafael Palmeiro

My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

My parents didn't exercise, so it was not something I saw was good for you or fun. I wish I had grown up knowing to do that.
‐‐ Christina Hendricks

My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'
‐‐ Oscar Pistorius

My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'
‐‐ Richard Ayoade

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.
‐‐ Dorothy Hamill

My parents didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up. We were comfortable, but I didn't go to Oxbridge, and yet every American interviewer I get says to me, 'You're related to Charles II! Your grandfather was a baronet!' And it's infuriating, because that is a part of my history, but you're trying to turn me into a posh boy, and I'm not.
‐‐ Kit Harington

My parents didn't have any money.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.
‐‐ Gerard Way

My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.
‐‐ Derek Fisher

My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.
‐‐ Jello Biafra

My parents didn't know anything about collegiate scholarships, so they had accepted the national team training stipend, the monthly stipend that I received after making the national team, so I was ineligible for NCAA eligibility anyway.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

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.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

My parents didn't know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me.
‐‐ Stella Young

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
‐‐ Al Franken

My parents didn't play golf.
‐‐ Amy Alcott