Quotes About Parents

I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about how my parents were and what kinds of movies I was watching.

I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.

The mentality that I have now comes from my parents, both of whom were judo fighters and they were very competitive.

I really want to be a mentor to other Islander kids, because I understand the pressure they are under from their parents.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

My parents were always playing records: My mom was really into the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac, and my dad was more Billy Squire, Whitesnake, '80s hair metal. But I think there's that crucial point where you become an adolescent and you don't want to listen to your parents' music.

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.

Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada. I left when I was three. My parents went to Miami, and that's where I grew up.

My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.

My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.

I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern - small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.

Both my parents were mild, gentle people.

My dad worked as a floor manager in a clothing mill in Dombivli and my mom is a housewife.

My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.

Both of my parents were both multi-sport athletes. Their mindset was, be an athlete as long as possible, up until they became parents. And so they dropped their dreams for their children.

Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'

When I was 13, my parents bought me a mini snooker set for my birthday. From the moment I first held a cue in my hands, I was transfixed.

The most influential people in my life are deceased. These include my parents, George Dunne, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., my minister in college.

I think my parents felt us being a minority a little bit more than I did, and they tried to shelter me from that so I didn't feel it at all.

My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.