As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.
~By Judy Biggert ~
Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.
~By Mary Cheney ~
I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.
~By David Hyde Pierce ~
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
~By Ann Patchett ~
My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.
~By David Beckham ~
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
~By Martin Lewis Perl ~
My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.
~By Erika Slezak ~
When my parents separated, I was very grateful.
~By Christopher Durang ~
Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
~By T. Berry Brazelton ~
I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
~By Zach Braff ~
There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.
~By John T. Walton ~
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
~By Billy Graham ~
My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.
~By Kenneth Joseph Arrow ~
My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
~By Charles Tupper ~
I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.
~By LaToya Jackson ~
I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.
~By Greg Norman ~
If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.
~By Jung Chang ~
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 ~
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
~By Maya Lin ~
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 ~
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.
~By Eliza Dushku ~
My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
I would say that my parents were supportive of me.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
Different parents have different standards for their children.
~By Penelope Spheeris ~
My parents really encouraged me.
~By Randy Castillo ~
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 have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
~By T. E. Lawrence ~
Our law enforcement must be given every tool available to protect children from predators and parents need to know who is living in their community.
~By Robin Hayes ~
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
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 ~
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
~By Robert Redford ~
My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
~By Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ~
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 ~
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
~By Jonathan Lethem ~
That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.
~By Ernie Harwell ~
The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.
~By Michael Bergin ~
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
~By A. E. van Vogt ~
Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
~By Jackie Chan ~
Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
~By Ben Stiller ~
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
~By Doris Lessing ~
My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about.
~By Anita Hill ~
Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.
~By Wendy Liebman ~
If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
~By Bill Griffith ~
While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.
~By Douglas Wood ~
I don't think my parents know what I do.
~By John Malkovich ~
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.
~By Christopher Parker ~
Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
~By Carl Paladino ~
I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.
~By Mary Cheney ~
I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
~By Jacques Delille ~
The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.
~By Andrew H. Malcolm ~
Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.
~By James Merrill ~
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
~By Jack Adams ~
I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own.
~By Norm Coleman ~
I love both my parents dearly.
~By Kevin Eubanks ~
My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.
~By Lexa Doig ~
No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.
~By Silvan Shalom ~
I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
~By Randy Harrison ~
There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here.
~By Michael P. Anderson ~
Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.
~By Zach Wamp ~
My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
~By Bill Cosby ~
We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines.
~By Robert A. Brady ~
There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.
~By Ben Affleck ~
I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.
~By Howard Gardner ~
I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.
~By Jeremy London ~
My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.
~By Jayne Meadows ~
If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
~By Tom Ford ~
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
~By Alan Bennett ~
If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.
~By Dick Cavett ~
I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.
~By David Keith ~
Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.
~By Michelle Obama ~
It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
~By Karrie Webb ~
I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV.
~By Al Roker ~
When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.
~By Tony Visconti ~
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 parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.
~By Amy Tan ~
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.
~By Mitch Miller ~
My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.
~By Forest Whitaker ~
I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
~By Randy Harrison ~
I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.
~By Ryan White ~
My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.
~By Claire Forlani ~
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 ~
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
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 ~
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 ~
And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?
~By Robert Sternberg ~
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