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 ~
My parents wanted me to go to law school.
~By Sasha Alexander ~
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.
~By Marion Cotillard ~
Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.
~By Ella R. Bloor ~
Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.
~By Deana Carter ~
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
~By Bob Beauprez ~
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 ~
Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.
~By James Blunt ~
My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
~By Dan Marino ~
Parents should be the most important examples for their children.
~By Christy Turlington ~
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 had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
~By Bill Griffith ~
Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.
~By Harry Mathews ~
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
~By Alan Bennett ~
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 ~
When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.
~By Michael King ~
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
~By John Doolittle ~
A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.
~By Ewan McGregor ~
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 ~
My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
~By Nastassja Kinski ~
My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.
~By James Franco ~
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 ~
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
~By Earl Wilson ~
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
~By Ama Ata Aidoo ~
The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
~By Natalie Portman ~
I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.
~By Jeremy London ~
My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.
~By Holly Near ~
Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.
~By John Walters ~
We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.
~By Linda Vester ~
I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.
~By Martin Lewis Perl ~
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 ~
Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.
~By Raj Kapoor ~
Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.
~By Erika Slezak ~
I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.
~By Caroline B. Cooney ~
I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.
~By Ofra Haza ~
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
~By Edward VIII ~
Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.
~By Boy George ~
I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
~By Arthur Hertzberg ~
My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
~By Billy Connolly ~
My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.
~By Teri Hatcher ~
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 ~
My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
~By Boz Scaggs ~
Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.
~By Rita Rudner ~
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 ~
The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
~By C. Everett Koop ~
I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.
~By John Lone ~
My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.
~By Holly Near ~
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system.
~By Quentin Crewe ~
We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.
~By Linda McCartney ~
I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.
~By Deborah Bull ~
I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.
~By Grace Slick ~
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
~By John Locke ~
I lost my parents when I was fairly young.
~By Craig T. Nelson ~
Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
~By James Meade ~
My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.
~By Tim Johnson ~
Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
~By Doris Day ~
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
~By Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ~
My parents separated when I was younger.
~By Tina Turner ~
The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.
~By Andrew Shue ~
My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.
~By Andrea Jung ~
I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents.
~By Tina Louise ~
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
~By Maya Lin ~
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 ~
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
~By Christian Lacroix ~
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
~By Robert Morgan ~
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 ~
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 always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives.
~By Deion Sanders ~
And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.
~By Thomas Keneally ~
Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.
~By Herschel Walker ~
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.
~By Alan Ladd ~
Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
~By Michelle Pfeiffer ~
Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.
~By Daisy Fuentes ~
And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents.
~By Philippe Perrin ~
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 ~
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
~By Judith Viorst ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
~By John Updike ~
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