If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.
~By Danny Bonaduce ~
My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.
~By Andy Dick ~
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 ~
The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.
~By Joyce Maynard ~
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.
~By Paul Nurse ~
In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.
~By Dorothy Hamill ~
We are the people our parents warned us about.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.
~By Claire Forlani ~
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.
~By Paul Nurse ~
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 ~
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 ~
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
My parents were hippies.
~By Balthazar Getty ~
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
~By Roger Moore ~
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
~By Ama Ata Aidoo ~
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
~By Jonathan Lethem ~
Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.
~By Jay Roach ~
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
~By April Winchell ~
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
~By Edward VIII ~
So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.
~By Steven Pinker ~
My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.
~By Corey Feldman ~
This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services.
~By Judy Biggert ~
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
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 ~
Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal.
~By John McEnroe ~
My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.
~By Neil Patrick Harris ~
Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
~By Candice Bergen ~
Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"
~By George Will ~
The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.
~By Steve Forbes ~
The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.
~By George Grove ~
Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.
~By James Hillman ~
I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
~By Jo Brand ~
My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.
~By Bonnie Blair ~
He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.
~By Jeffrey Eugenides ~
As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.
~By Anna Friel ~
Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
~By Bill Cosby ~
I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.
~By Greg Norman ~
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
~By Russell Baker ~
I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.
~By Luke Perry ~
My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.
~By Queen Mary ~
We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
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 ~
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
~By Fred Rogers ~
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.
~By Bridget Fonda ~
It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents.
~By Tina Louise ~
In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.
~By Parminder Nagra ~
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
~By Barry Humphries ~
My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.
~By Shelley Duvall ~
Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.
~By Jenna Elfman ~
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 ~
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
~By Haim Ginott ~
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 ~
When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
~By Dick Bruna ~
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system.
~By Quentin Crewe ~
My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
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 ~
And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.
~By John Engler ~
My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
~By John le Carre ~
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.
~By John Woolman ~
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
~By Jim DeMint ~
Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.
~By James MacArthur ~
There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.
~By C. Everett Koop ~
I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.
~By Margaret Smith ~
Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but they aren't a necessity.
~By Donald C. Medeiros ~
If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.
~By Eric Braeden ~
More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.
~By Lee Haney ~
Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?
~By Paula Abdul ~
No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.
~By Jimmy Connors ~
No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
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.
~By David Krumholtz ~
I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
~By Naveen Andrews ~
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
~By John Tesh ~
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.
~By Aisha Tyler ~
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
~By Bob Beauprez ~
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
~By Horace ~
And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.
~By John Sexton ~
I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.
~By Rita Rudner ~
The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
~By Jack Valenti ~
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
~By Joe Baca ~
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.
~By Roger Bannister ~
But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20.
~By David Axelrod ~
I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.
~By Jodie Foster ~
Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.
~By Prince Charles ~
I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
~By Dan Marino ~
Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.
~By Martin Lewis Perl ~
I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
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