All Quotes

My parents didn't really know one another.
‐‐ Christopher Durang

My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.
‐‐ Mike Krzyzewski

My parents didn't speak English. They learned it little by little. They realized that education was the ticket to a better future in their own rudimentary way. They kept the house clean, kept us on the straight and narrow, and none of us ever got into trouble with the law.
‐‐ Tony Cardenas

My parents didn't take me to the theatre to see Chekhov when I was growing up - we went to see 'Francie and Josie' once every five years.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
‐‐ Kristin Hersh

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.
‐‐ Harry Shearer

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
‐‐ Rupert Penry-Jones

My parents didn't want me to go into show business. They were afraid of what would happen if I didn't succeed. They wanted me to get married and have babies. I never saw marriage and family in my life.
‐‐ Loretta Swit

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
‐‐ Rafael Nadal

My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage.
‐‐ Jonathan Evison

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.
‐‐ Pink

My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals.
‐‐ Jacob Rothschild

My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.
‐‐ Sarah Shahi

My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.
‐‐ Eliza Dushku

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
‐‐ Jack Davenport

My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
‐‐ Natalie Zea

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.
‐‐ Matt Damon

My parents don't have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum's mum died that we could buy Fernandez, my first grand prix horse.
‐‐ Charlotte Dujardin

My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
‐‐ Sam Claflin

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.
‐‐ Lucy Deakins

My parents don't really watch movies at all.
‐‐ Teresa Palmer

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.
‐‐ Condoleezza Rice

My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish Jews. They were looking, I suppose, for a better economic life and were escaping from an anti-Semitic environment.
‐‐ Francois Englert

My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
‐‐ Charles Kuralt

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.
‐‐ Holly Near

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.
‐‐ Emmeline Pankhurst

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.
‐‐ Andy Partridge

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
‐‐ John Hurt

My parents find me hilarious. They don't pull me up for anything because I'm a good daughter. I stay at home, don't party too much, people don't talk about my affairs or that I am unprofessional. In fact, people tell my parents that I'm so well-brought up. Yes, I tend to shoot my mouth off, but they don't pull me up for that.
‐‐ Sonam Kapoor

My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and taught us to love it in return. After my father served proudly in the U.S. Army, they settled in Buffalo, N.Y., and were able to live the American Dream.
‐‐ Thomas Perez

My parents found me very difficult to educate.
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski

My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
‐‐ Nastassja Kinski

My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. They're both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.
‐‐ David Schwimmer

My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
‐‐ Candis Cayne

My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.
‐‐ Natalie du Toit

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.
‐‐ Dimitar Sasselov

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
‐‐ Dionne Warwick

My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.
‐‐ Tony Parsons