All Quotes

My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.
‐‐ Brooklyn Decker

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
‐‐ Amy Tan

My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after high school. I always knew that I was on my way to Moody Bible Institute when I graduated high school.
‐‐ David A. R. White

My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who's logged more hours than that guy.
‐‐ Bill Burr

My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
‐‐ Sally Hawkins

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

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.
‐‐ Kim Wilde

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.
‐‐ Olivia Williams

My parents have always been incredibly supportive. Even when I dropped out of high school, they said, 'We trust you, we believe in you.'
‐‐ Philipp Meyer

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.
‐‐ Camryn Manheim

My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding.
‐‐ Sofia Vassilieva

My parents have always been there to really support anything I wanted to do or learn - they provided the opportunity for me. I was very blessed in that sense.
‐‐ Paula Creamer

My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.
‐‐ Dilshad Vadsaria

My parents have always been very open.
‐‐ Zoe Lister-Jones

My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.
‐‐ Clara Mamet

My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers.
‐‐ Leona Lewis

My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.
‐‐ Bar Paly

My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.
‐‐ Kacey Musgraves

My parents have always said, 'You'll be so unhappy if you're no more than your career, that it's important to get out there and do things other than just your career.'
‐‐ Eva Amurri

My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.
‐‐ Jeev Milkha Singh

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.
‐‐ Haley Reinhart

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.
‐‐ Tony Parsons

My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

My parents have been married 50-some years, and I've never heard them fight. I got the chance to attend great universities and medical school.
‐‐ Tom Catena

My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one.
‐‐ Roxane Gay

My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.
‐‐ Jenny Mollen

My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning.
‐‐ Benjamin Cohen

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.
‐‐ David Beckham

My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
‐‐ Mary-Louise Parker

My parents have been together since 1963, so that's something.
‐‐ Bradley Cooper

My parents have been together since they were 16 years old.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

My parents have been very supportive, in fact, it was my mother who identified that what I was going through was actually depression. My family and friends never let me feel as if something was wrong with me. They made me feel that what I was going through was okay. They supported my decision to take medication for depression.
‐‐ Deepika Padukone

My parents have been with me every step of the way.
‐‐ Haley Reinhart

My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.
‐‐ Dane DeHaan

My parents have had a love marriage, so I have made it pretty clear to them that I, too, will have a love marriage.
‐‐ Sonakshi Sinha

My parents have influenced my fashion choices. I inherited many of their older garments, and I like their style. I love my mother's elegant and dramatic couture dresses and the feeling for colour my father has.
‐‐ Elizabeth Jagger

My parents have mellowed quite a bit, but, growing up, there was a sense that the only real professions were doctor, engineer, lawyer. Those were your choices.
‐‐ Reggie Lee

My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want to do it so much, they agreed and supported me.
‐‐ Laura Dekker

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.
‐‐ Adora Svitak

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
‐‐ Nadia Giosia

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.
‐‐ Mia Love

My parents inspire me every day. They are both incredible people that I love and look up to every day. Industry wise, I love what Justin Timberlake has done with his career. He's truly an idol to me, not only as a performer, but as a person as well.
‐‐ Max Schneider

My parents instilled a really good work ethic from when I was little - if you want to have money to spend on holidays, you earn it. So I've always been someone who wanted to be able to survive by myself, but I think you have to let down the barriers a little bit - let other people in.
‐‐ Emilia Fox

My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.
‐‐ Matthew Gray Gubler

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
‐‐ Joan Collins

My parents instilled something greater than myself. They instilled faith in me.
‐‐ Johnathon Schaech

My parents just always taught me to be reasonable.
‐‐ Caroline Wozniacki

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.
‐‐ Andy Dick

My parents kept me very grounded.
‐‐ Danielle de Niese