All Quotes

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.
‐‐ Alice Walker

My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.
‐‐ Hilda Solis

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
‐‐ Rob Bell

My parents were both very musically inclined, they were both songwriters and musicians, so we grew up in the house singing music together, and R&B had a huge strong arm in the foundation of my career.
‐‐ Jesse McCartney

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.
‐‐ Deborah Moggach

My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.
‐‐ Max von Sydow

My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
‐‐ Gary Paulsen

My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.
‐‐ Nandan Nilekani

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

My parents were Democrats.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
‐‐ Martin Lewis Perl

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.
‐‐ Sissy Spacek

My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.
‐‐ George Clooney

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.
‐‐ Vincent Gallo

My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.
‐‐ Jeaniene Frost

My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it... The outside world was this strange place that was not so much dangerous as not as interesting as what went on in the house.
‐‐ Kevin Wilson

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
‐‐ Laura Linney

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
‐‐ J. Cole

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann

My parents were divorced when I was really young.
‐‐ Thomas Gibson

My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.
‐‐ Patricia Polacco

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.
‐‐ Bill de Blasio

My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.
‐‐ Lisa Snowdon

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

My parents were early adopters, and I've been online since a rather young age. You should regard anything from 2001 or earlier as having been written by a different person who also happens to be named 'Eliezer Yudkowsky.' I do not share his opinions.
‐‐ Eliezer Yudkowsky

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

My parents were enthusiastic fans of 'Sammy's Hill.' But they think 'Sammy's House' is a better book.
‐‐ Kristin Gore

My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.
‐‐ Mike McCue

My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations.
‐‐ Stana Katic

My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.
‐‐ David Guetta

My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.
‐‐ Ron Carlson

My parents were fine at 85. So 85's nothing. 100 is another thing. I have a friend whose mother is about to turn 101, and it's not great.
‐‐ Roz Chast

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
‐‐ Vivien Leigh

My parents were from New England. It's very funny, but when I grew up, you always had to say, 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Yes, sir.'
‐‐ Cy Twombly

My parents were from Wisconsin, and football was a big thing.
‐‐ Suzan DelBene

My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.
‐‐ Kym Whitley

My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted his approval.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

My parents were great at making sure I got out of bed when I needed to play football on a Sunday morning and that I was ready after school to go to training on a Tuesday and Thursday. But it was never forced upon me or rammed down my throat. If it had been, I could have ended up hating sport.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.
‐‐ Phil Jackson

My parents were hardworking. They made every penny stretch as far as possible. That was probably the major reason everything they gave me was always two or three sizes too large.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

My parents were hippies.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.
‐‐ Paulo Costanzo

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
‐‐ Lloyd Alexander