To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.
~By Marcus Allen ~
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.
~By Sarah Silverman ~
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
~By Diane Lane ~
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.
~By Maria Monk ~
We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.
~By Jeffrey Hunter ~
I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.
~By Roger Moore ~
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
~By Allan Bloom ~
My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.
~By Andy Partridge ~
All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.
~By Graham Kerr ~
If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.
~By Kevin Richardson ~
I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.
~By Kiana Tom ~
I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.
~By Deana Carter ~
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
~By Jason Alexander ~
After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.
~By Mathias Rust ~
I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.
~By Thomas Friedman ~
The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.
~By George Whitefield ~
Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.
~By C. Everett Koop ~
I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
~By Victor Borge ~
My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.
~By Mia Maestro ~
And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future.
~By Brian Schweitzer ~
This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
~By Dana Carvey ~
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
~By T. Berry Brazelton ~
I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.
~By Paula Danziger ~
I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.
~By Jonathan Franzen ~
Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.
~By Willie Stargell ~
The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.
~By Jami Gertz ~
No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
God, my parents, my wife. I don't have a lot of friends, because I'm always moving around. I don't drink, so I don't hang out in bars. But they've been very big in my life. Because they have helped to encourage me.
~By Herschel Walker ~
We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.
~By Ella Maillart ~
I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
~By James Dean ~
My own parents loved each other very much.
~By Jilly Cooper ~
I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.
~By Tatyana Ali ~
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
~By Leon Askin ~
Our parents were musicians.
~By Caroline Corr ~
Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?
~By Jef I. Richards ~
I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.
~By James Worthy ~
I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.
~By Dominic Chianese ~
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
~By Horace ~
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
~By David Sedaris ~
My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.
~By Emma Stone ~
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!
~By Ryan Reynolds ~
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
~By Don Van Vliet ~
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
~By Charles de Lint ~
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.
~By Lisa Snowdon ~
I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~
It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
~By Elizabeth I ~
I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
~By Mary S. Calderone ~
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
~By Clarence Day ~
It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?
~By Joe Cocker ~
But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.
~By Alex Chiu ~
In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.
~By Robert Benton ~
Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.
~By Ernest Istook ~
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
~By Gore Vidal ~
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
~By Alan Rickman ~
There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.
~By Meg Cabot ~
I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.
~By Eric Heiden ~
My parents were hippies.
~By Balthazar Getty ~
Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
~By Boris Becker ~
Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.
~By Vernon L. Smith ~
Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.
~By Bill Richardson ~
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
~By Philip Roth ~
It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.
~By Troy Vincent ~
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
~By Adelbert von Chamisso ~
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
~By Phil Donahue ~
Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.
~By Gil Hodges ~
My own parents were touchy-feely.
~By Ben Stiller ~
Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.
~By Bobby Flay ~
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.
~By Michelle Hunziker ~
My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.
~By Heather O'Rourke ~
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.
~By Vivien Leigh ~
I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.
~By Katie Holmes ~
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
~By Plato ~
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
~By Barry Gibb ~
Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
~By John Clayton ~
So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
~By Virginia Satir ~
I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
~By Barbara Coloroso ~
Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
~By Michael Jackson ~
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
~By Alice Miller ~
I don't think my parents know what I do.
~By John Malkovich ~
If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.
~By Dick Cavett ~
Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
~By Bernice Weissbourd ~
That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
~By Iain Duncan Smith ~
Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.
~By Gregory Hines ~
When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?
~By Corbin Bernsen ~
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.
~By Barack Obama ~
I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.
~By Mary Crosby ~
Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.
~By Joe Lando ~
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