Quotes About Parents

I always loved being in London and being near my parents.

I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it.

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.

Our children need to remember to love each other, how to honor each other, their parents, God, and their neighbors.

I was very conscious of the film industry - a lot of people, neighbors, worked in it. I actually grew up doing a bit of extra work myself. I was homeschooled, and it was a way that I could make money. My parents let us do these jobs, and I never got very far, but I was much more interested in what everybody else was doing, and I liked being on set.

My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college.

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

I think my parents did want me to go to university just in case, but neither my mum or dad went to uni, so they couldn't talk.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

It's always nerve-racking, showing your parents things you've been working on.

I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us.

I grew up in a city - it's called Lawrence, Massachusetts. It's about half an hour north of Boston. When my parents got divorced, I moved to New Hampshire because my father worked up there.

I know certainly that my parents sacrificed a lot to come to America, and to... start a new life for their family and their future families. At least with first-generation Asian-American immigrants, parents put so much risk in work and to provide the best for their children.

People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.

I told my parents I wanted to move to New York City and be an actress when I was around seven or eight.

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper.

I don't know how my parents ever paid for my dance classes when I was little. We even had to line our shoes with newspaper when there were holes in them because we couldn't afford to get them soled.

Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers.

I'm grateful for the educators and administrators who have helped make charter schools available to students and parents, and look forward to their continued success in educating America's next generation of leaders.

Neither one of my parents played sports at a very high level when they grew up in Nicaragua.

My parents are nice people, and they also made a point to have dinner as a family every night.