All Quotes

My parents taught me that work ethic is one of the most important keys in life, and I believe it.
‐‐ Kendall Jenner

My parents taught me the value of money and working hard. And I kind of got that in me intuitively.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso

My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically, but I had to be compassionate and understand the position of those abusing me. I had to figure it out and then rise above it.
‐‐ Saul Rubinek

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
‐‐ Atom Egoyan

My parents taught me to do whatever makes you happy - follow your bliss. That's why I don't make a lot of movies. I'm very meat and potatoes when it comes to work, putting in eight hours each day. I only do what I love.
‐‐ Mike Myers

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

My parents taught me to react quickly when temptation comes and to say 'No!' instantly and emphatically. I recommend that same counsel to you. Avoid temptations.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

My parents taught us it's important to give back.
‐‐ Jenna Bush

My parents taught us to live within our means. It's time to force Washington to do the same.
‐‐ Joni Ernst

My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just kept challenging me and challenging me.
‐‐ Abby Wambach

My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.
‐‐ Shawn Johnson

My parents think I'm better under pressure.
‐‐ Tori Amos

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
‐‐ Nicole Kidman

My parents told me any and every fairy-tale from all around the world. I usually gravitated towards ones with interesting, strong heroines.
‐‐ Sarah J. Maas

My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
‐‐ Taufik Hidayat

My parents told me from the time I can remember that, 'Yeah, you're adopted. But this is your family.' I can remember my mom, she tells me this story: when I was little, I was looking at her, and I was like, 'Why isn't my skin the same color as yours?' She was like, 'Oh, you're adopted, but I wish I had pretty brown skin like you.'
‐‐ Colin Kaepernick

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.
‐‐ Amy Tan

My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.
‐‐ John Lewis

My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'
‐‐ Ashley Wagner

My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her - with the goal of saving him.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.
‐‐ Denise Juneau

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.
‐‐ Ahmet Zappa

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.
‐‐ Vincent Gallo

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own.
‐‐ Dhani Jones

My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
‐‐ Tate Donovan

My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton

My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook, and I would always help her - whether it was cracking eggs or stirring the green beans. It takes me back there.
‐‐ Hillary Scott

My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal.
‐‐ Gwendoline Christie

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.
‐‐ Alexa Ray Joel

My parents trust me.
‐‐ Jamie-Lynn Sigler

My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

My parents used to play me this album when I couldn't go to sleep. It was called 'Deep Forest.' I think it was a self-titled record. It's actually still one of my favorite albums of all time.
‐‐ Flume

My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.
‐‐ Tom Rachman

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.
‐‐ Lexa Doig

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
‐‐ Billy Connolly

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
‐‐ Ben Stiller

My parents waited to have me and my sister - my dad was 43 when my mother had me, and my mom was 38. They purposefully waited until they had had their adventures in life so that we wouldn't represent the end of their freedom.
‐‐ Christian Borle

My parents walked in on me Googling 'agents for kids' when I was 9.
‐‐ Graham Phillips

My parents wanted me and my siblings to practice some sports outside school. And since we lived next to a tennis club, we decided to play tennis. I didn't have an idol, so to speak, but I always enjoyed watching Pete Sampras and Alex Corretja.
‐‐ Stanislas Wawrinka

My parents wanted me to be a Baptist minister. I was a youth minister in my church when I was still in college. And I was in a lot of theater in high school, and at Northwestern.
‐‐ Dick Gephardt

My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university - my older brother is a lawyer - but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, 'OK.' They like it very much now.
‐‐ Caterina Murino

My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
‐‐ Jennifer Lopez

My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
‐‐ Kate Micucci

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.
‐‐ Levon Helm

My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.
‐‐ Joe Taslim