All Quotes

My parents were of the generation that lived through the Second World War, but I grew up listening to my mother recounting her dad's tales about his terrible experiences during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 and later on the Western Front.
‐‐ Tony Bradman

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
‐‐ Madeleine Albright

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.
‐‐ Anton Yelchin

My parents were on the Grand Ole Opry. They traveled all over the country singing hillbilly music. That's what they called it back then. They were friends with Roy Acuff and the Delmore Brothers and the Carter Family. And all of my brothers and sisters who were older than me started on the show, after they were big enough to hold a guitar and sing.
‐‐ Charlie Haden

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
‐‐ Viktor Vekselberg

My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, 'Hey, I'm onto something here.'
‐‐ Bill Rancic

My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.
‐‐ Mia Maestro

My parents were part of a crowd that was attached to all the different navies stationed in Malta. When they would have parties in each other's houses, I would get taken along, and that's where I heard all this great music. I didn't distinguish particular styles; it was all music to me.
‐‐ Robert Palmer

My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much.
‐‐ Catherine Hicks

My parents were passionate about what they did, very cheap, and very focused on doing good in society.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.
‐‐ Tad Williams

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.
‐‐ Saffron Burrows

My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning.
‐‐ Judith Butler

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
‐‐ Mark Hoppus

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.
‐‐ Lauren Oliver

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.
‐‐ Sienna Miller

My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
‐‐ Billy Crudup

My parents were really nice to me.
‐‐ Bryan Callen

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.
‐‐ Al Franken

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
‐‐ Anna Kendrick

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
‐‐ Questlove

My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
‐‐ Zoey Deutch

My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
‐‐ Ben Elton

My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

My parents were sixty years married.
‐‐ Roddy Doyle

My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.
‐‐ Pierre Boulez

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.
‐‐ Alan Ladd

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school.
‐‐ Brian Blessed

My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.
‐‐ Rose Byrne

My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.
‐‐ Billy Casper

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.
‐‐ Katy Perry

My parents were super supportive of my big dreams; I was pretty lucky. I guess I became a musician because I didn't see myself doing or loving anything else as much.
‐‐ Madi Diaz

My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy.
‐‐ Bill Hader

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.
‐‐ Jane Pauley

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.
‐‐ Sarah Waters

My parents were the ones who gave me the independence, who gave me the spark to do anything that you set your mind to, as all parents should do for their kids.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table.
‐‐ Bo Sanchez

My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

My parents were truly severe.
‐‐ Miuccia Prada

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
‐‐ Yaya DaCosta

My parents were very artistic, but busy.
‐‐ Katey Sagal

My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

My parents were very funny - they didn't know it. But they were. They were actually sharing an IQ.
‐‐ Tim Conway