My parents were from New England. It's very funny, but when I grew up, you always had to say, 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Yes, sir.'
Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.
Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.
Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
My mother's family didn't speak much about Europe: My mother was born in 1935, and her new-world parents were the sort who didn't want to worry their children about the war.
My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.
Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.
A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.
Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.
I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
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.
It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.
My parents didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up. We were comfortable, but I didn't go to Oxbridge, and yet every American interviewer I get says to me, 'You're related to Charles II! Your grandfather was a baronet!' And it's infuriating, because that is a part of my history, but you're trying to turn me into a posh boy, and I'm not.
I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
The idea that your spouse or your parents don't know where you are at all times may be part of the past. Is that good or bad? Will that make for better marriages or worse marriages? I don't know.
Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding.
I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing.
My parents were both high-school music teachers.
For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.
My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind.
Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.
I love doing things quietly. I love being with friends. I love my parents and my brother Guglielmo. They are essentials to me.
I don't want to make any mistakes. My parents have been married for 40 years. I want to stay married.
Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.
My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions.
Seeing your parents fall apart is really rough. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.
I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.
If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.
