All Quotes

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
‐‐ Martin Lewis Perl

My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.
‐‐ Regina Doman

My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be.
‐‐ Diana Lopez

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
‐‐ Olivia Wilde

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.
‐‐ Michael Franti

My parents said that I was nine months old and would throw myself out of the crib onto the floor continually. As soon as they left the room after putting me back in they'd hear a big bump and I'd be on the floor again.
‐‐ Johnny Knoxville

My parents said that sitting at home playing video games all day won't bring you anywhere in life.
‐‐ PewDiePie

My parents said to us, practically on a daily basis, that we were as good as anyone else on this earth, and that we would simply have to work harder in order to show that.
‐‐ Jessye Norman

My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.
‐‐ Marya Hornbacher

My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.
‐‐ Dylan Lauren

My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.
‐‐ Roz Chast

My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.
‐‐ Radhanath Swami

My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter without the magic. Sometimes we went into town, and if we were caught chewing gum in our uniform, members of the public would take down our names and report us to the school.
‐‐ Carmen Busquets

My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
‐‐ Ziyi Zhang

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Beart

My parents separated before I was 1 year old. I moved in with my aunt and uncle when I was in fourth grade. I was, like, 8 or 9 years old. I was getting in a lot of trouble when I was in Southern California. My older sisters were in gangs. My older brother was in gangs.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu

My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.
‐‐ Tahj Mowry

My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
‐‐ F. Gary Gray

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal

My parents separated when I was younger.
‐‐ Tina Turner

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
‐‐ Barack Obama

My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
‐‐ Ben Marcus

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
‐‐ Andrew Garfield

My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco

My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my exams and thought, 'I don't really want to do a degree.' I did philosophy with the Jesuits for about a year, and then I joined a bank. While I was there, I saw an ad in an Irish paper for radio announcers.
‐‐ Terry Wogan

My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.
‐‐ Garcelle Beauvais

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.
‐‐ Justin Townes Earle

My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.
‐‐ Ani DiFranco

My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.
‐‐ Vinnie Jones

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.
‐‐ Nikki Haley

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.
‐‐ Mike Shinoda

My parents strapped a pair of plastic skis on my boots when I was two years old and sent me down our driveway in Vail. Of course, they were holding on to me the whole time, but that was my first experience 'skiing.'
‐‐ Mikaela Shiffrin

My parents, stupidly, always let me go downtown. This was pre-pager, even. It made me adventurous. I think it makes you tough.
‐‐ Judy Greer

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.
‐‐ Tim Burton

My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.
‐‐ David Suzuki

My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
‐‐ Olivia Williams

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.
‐‐ Brian Blessed

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
‐‐ Joan Jett

My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
‐‐ Alice Walker

My parents taught me that having a passion is a rare thing, so following it through and working hard, even when it's tough, is important.
‐‐ Jessica Springsteen