All Quotes

My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.
‐‐ Claire Danes

My parents never discouraged me. There were a couple times when my dad criticized a couple things that I did, but it was nothing. So through the bad shows, I never wanted to quit.
‐‐ Jeff Dunham

My parents never forced things on my brother and me: not our faith, not our sports, not our friends. Yet they taught us about surrounding ourselves with the right people: the kind of people we want to be.
‐‐ Amanda Borden

My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
‐‐ Haley Joel Osment

My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.
‐‐ Paul Walker

My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.
‐‐ Emilia Fox

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Nancy Kerrigan

My parents never pushed me to be an actress. You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself.
‐‐ Violante Placido

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
‐‐ Ted Ligety

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.
‐‐ Deepika Padukone

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.
‐‐ Margaret Cho

My parents never really lecture me.
‐‐ Georgia Jagger

My parents never really wanted me to be a musician at all, because in Peru you don't earn any money that way. But when they realised it was genuinely what I wanted to do, they supported me always.
‐‐ Juan Diego Florez

My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and there was a lot of loss that came with that, so my parents were reluctant to talk about those things. So I had, by and large, an American childhood.
‐‐ Dinaw Mengestu

My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.
‐‐ Miranda Cosgrove

My parents never said to me, 'Why don't you go and get a real profession?' And that really helped.
‐‐ Anat Cohen

My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
‐‐ Dakota Fanning

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.
‐‐ Imelda May

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
‐‐ Constance Baker Motley

My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
‐‐ Narciso Rodriguez

My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.
‐‐ Kiefer Sutherland

My parents noticed my love for clothes and encouraged me to study design abroad. I decided to join the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York but never ended up there.
‐‐ Naeem Khan

My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and U.S. support for these policies.
‐‐ Norman Finkelstein

My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.
‐‐ Sheldon Lee Glashow

My parents opened a bank account for me when I was really little, and I think I paid for some of my university education with my savings. I've always been a bit of a saver.
‐‐ Rachel McAdams

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.
‐‐ Neil Patrick Harris

My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let me.
‐‐ Penelope Cruz

My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only child, they wanted me to become a pharmacist. But my own preference would have been to study philosophy and mathematics.
‐‐ John Harsanyi

My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
‐‐ Jack Dangermond

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.
‐‐ Flavor Flav

My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.
‐‐ Caroline Wozniacki

My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.
‐‐ Toby Stephens

My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
‐‐ Karl Rove

My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.
‐‐ Louis Sachar

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
‐‐ Abigail Washburn

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.
‐‐ Amy Winehouse

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
‐‐ Ben Stein

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.
‐‐ Heather O'Rourke

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.
‐‐ Bonnie Blair

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.
‐‐ Richard Avedon

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.
‐‐ Hilda Solis

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.
‐‐ Robert Griffin III

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.
‐‐ Lily Collins

My parents really did believe in the Golden Rule. They really did believe that all people should be treated equally. They had friends of every culture, we celebrated different holidays, but really, secretly behind it, they had no problem telling me who I couldn't marry.
‐‐ Diane Farr

My parents really encouraged me.
‐‐ Randy Castillo

My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.
‐‐ Jamie xx