All Quotes

My parents' generation didn't have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all those words.
‐‐ Sebastian Faulks

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.
‐‐ Arabella Weir

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

My parents got divorced when I was 2, so I have this weird thing where I have 8 brothers and sisters, but I am also an only child.
‐‐ Kurt Braunohler

My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro.
‐‐ Tucker Max

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
‐‐ Anna Kendrick

My parents got married when I was 12.
‐‐ Joel Kinnaman

My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.
‐‐ Alex Lifeson

My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
‐‐ Zendaya

My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.
‐‐ Sam Abell

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.
‐‐ Jeff Ross

My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

My parents grew up during the Harlem renaissance.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.
‐‐ Brian K. Vaughan

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
‐‐ Graham Norton

My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don't see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to one another. Their relationship wasn't something to be constantly examined or picked apart.
‐‐ Steve Carell

My parents had a difficult divorce.
‐‐ Christian Camargo

My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfather came in. He was also my inspiration for becoming an actor. I really respected him.
‐‐ Christian Camargo

My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.
‐‐ Francisco Costa

My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way.
‐‐ Howard Graham Buffett

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
‐‐ Candace Bushnell

My parents had a great work ethic.
‐‐ Charlie Rose

My parents had a long and eventful marriage and were always a bit like movie stars to me when they were young.
‐‐ Monique Roffey

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.
‐‐ Maria Sharapova

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.
‐‐ Toots Thielemans

My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.
‐‐ Bre Pettis

My parents had a strong impact on who I am today. My mother and dad both encouraged us to think about the long term - where you wanted to be - to think about education, to think about what is right and what is wrong, and to do things that will help you in the long run.
‐‐ Tony Dungy

My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.
‐‐ Erika Slezak

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.
‐‐ Jane Pauley

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
‐‐ Julie Bowen

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.
‐‐ Holly Near

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.
‐‐ Franz Boas

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta

My parents had five children in six years and one week, meaning that my mom was pregnant for most of the '60s and driving carpools for most of the '70s. When we were young, she dressed us alike so she could pick us out in crowds: identical skirts for the four girls with the color-coordinated pants for my brother.
‐‐ Christine Pelosi

My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.
‐‐ Anna Chancellor

My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'
‐‐ Denise Morrison

My parents had met in high school and married right after my father came back from World War II. They honeymooned in Paris and returned to that city when my father, in college on the G.I. Bill, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill

My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it.
‐‐ Philip Kerr

My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.
‐‐ Jack Dangermond

My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
‐‐ Nate Ruess

My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
‐‐ Dakota Johnson

My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
‐‐ Augusten Burroughs

My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.
‐‐ Patti Smith

My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn't have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.
‐‐ Stephen Curry