All Quotes

My parents wanted me to go to law school.
‐‐ Sasha Alexander

My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.
‐‐ Schuyler Fisk

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.
‐‐ Bruno Tonioli

My parents wanted their daughters to reach their full potential. I joke that they said, 'We left our homeland so you could pursue your dreams - as long as you're a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer.'
‐‐ Dina Powell

My parents wanted to be actors. They tried for years but didn't get anywhere. Then Mum got pregnant with me and they decided to make actors out of their children. You need your parents' support if you're going to do it. Otherwise who's going to ferry you to castings?
‐‐ Honeysuckle Weeks

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.
‐‐ Iggy Pop

My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was in '2001: Space Odyssey.' That's how I got the name Karim Dule Hill. Growing up, I never liked the name Karim because people would ask me, 'Could you dunk like Kareem Abdul Jabbar?'
‐‐ Dule Hill

My parents wanted us to be pool-safe, so I had lessons when I was 18 months old. I would like to share with all the parents out there that I was that kid who cried during every one of my lessons. But it wasn't an option for my parents; we had a backyard pool, so I needed to learn how to swim.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
‐‐ Uzo Aduba

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.
‐‐ David Krumholtz

My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.
‐‐ China Mieville

My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.
‐‐ Martha Stewart

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Vivien Leigh

My parents were always involved in community theatre, and I'd do the tech work and play the child.
‐‐ Mark Linn-Baker

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.
‐‐ Kathryn Prescott

My parents were always supportive of me in terms of expressing myself artistically. Art, musical instruments, singing - whatever I did, they were just really supportive.
‐‐ Justin Chon

My parents were always very strict, and they gave me the right beliefs in how to treat people. It was very strict and all about morals - I try to pass that on to my own children.
‐‐ David Beckham

My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.
‐‐ John Rhys-Davies

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
‐‐ Kate Bosworth

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.
‐‐ James Denton

My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!
‐‐ Mathias Rust

My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.
‐‐ Rodman Philbrick

My parents were ballet dancers, and I did a lot of ballet, too, so I think I learned quite early on how to hold my body. Although I do recall desperately wishing I was shorter at school.
‐‐ Elizabeth Debicki

My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson

My parents were Belfast Catholics.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.
‐‐ Madi Diaz

My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't see the borders.
‐‐ JR

My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.
‐‐ David Lee

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.
‐‐ Roz Chast

My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea.
‐‐ Randall Park

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.
‐‐ Paul Nurse

My parents were born in the 1930s, and they experienced the air raids on Tokyo.
‐‐ Hideo Kojima

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
‐‐ Sam Rockwell

My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.
‐‐ Mary Barra

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

My parents were both entrepreneurs.
‐‐ Caprice Bourret

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
‐‐ Susan Lucci

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
‐‐ Maria Monk

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.
‐‐ Carre Otis

My parents were both high-school music teachers.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.
‐‐ Micky Dolenz

My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.
‐‐ Veronica Webb

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.
‐‐ America Ferrera