All Quotes

My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.
‐‐ Andrea Jung

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.
‐‐ Tony Goldwyn

My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.
‐‐ Alexander Ludwig

My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over, I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing. Yes, I grew up in Hollywood, but not in any rich neighborhood.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio

My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
‐‐ Imran Amed

My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.
‐‐ Melanie Fiona

My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
‐‐ Veruschka von Lehndorff

My parents liked to go dancing, and they encouraged all of us to bring our friends home. My brother had a skiffle group, and there would often be dancing in the house. And my parents would come and dance with us.
‐‐ Diana Quick

My parents listened to a lot of music when I was really little. They used to listen to people like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and I used to be really into that.
‐‐ Conor Maynard

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.
‐‐ Clare Bowen

My parents live right down the street from the house I grew up in.
‐‐ Miranda Lambert

My parents live there, and I was born and raised in Scotland. I lived there for the first 11 years of my life, until my parents decided to take our family to France where we lived for a couple of years. We then moved back to Scotland, and that is where I feel most home - where I come back to myself, and I love more than I can say.
‐‐ Rose Leslie

My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.
‐‐ Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real.
‐‐ Megan Follows

My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time, I was really puzzled by why people liked it.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.
‐‐ Bryan Stevenson

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
‐‐ Olivia Williams

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.
‐‐ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

My parents love each other. They work through their problems.
‐‐ Brian Austin Green

My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.
‐‐ Simon McBurney

My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.
‐‐ James Woods

My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand. We had all these sounds always going. We never had somber music - always upbeat.
‐‐ Marjorie Gubelmann

My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
‐‐ Sam Robards

My parents made it a point that, although I was born and raised in New York City, I needed to speak Spanish because they wanted me to be able to communicate with my elders when I went to Santo Domingo or when my family came to visit from Cuba.
‐‐ Selenis Leyva

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.
‐‐ James D. Watson

My parents made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do. They were really into empowering me.
‐‐ Pierre Omidyar

My parents made me finish high school before I started acting, and I did, like, two weeks of fine arts college before I was like, 'This sucks. I'm going!' I got a few small jobs, and then I booked a big-for-Canada feature.
‐‐ Jessica Pare

My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder.
‐‐ Ali MacGraw

My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.
‐‐ Dani Shapiro

My parents made us do everything, try everything.
‐‐ Alison Krauss

My parents make sure we have everything we need so that we compete to the best of our abilities.
‐‐ Simone Biles

My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.
‐‐ Riz Ahmed

My parents managed a summer camp, and it was vacant for about seven or eight months out of the year. It was in the middle of nowhere in the woods. We backed up to a state forest. So absolutely, there were creepy woods all around the house. It was easy to get lost. It was really spooky.
‐‐ Caitlin Kittredge

My parents' marriage is a gift to everyone around them - 60 years of making their kids laugh. How many parents are actually funny?
‐‐ Louise Erdrich

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.
‐‐ Robert Webb

My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.
‐‐ Gail Porter

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.
‐‐ Michael Smith

My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.
‐‐ Tom Morello

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.
‐‐ Sara Zarr

My parents met in the theatre, and I thought that was so romantic. My dad was a scenic designer and my mom was a dancer, and that's how they met; they met in the theatre.
‐‐ Skye McCole Bartusiak

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
‐‐ Kamala Harris

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.
‐‐ Sanford I. Weill

My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.
‐‐ Juan Felipe Herrera

My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.
‐‐ Eric Stoltz

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
‐‐ Sally Ride

My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and was very grateful to them for everything, and I didn't want to disappoint them.
‐‐ Chang-Rae Lee