Quotes About Parents

When I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted. Whether or not it actually happens, it changes a culture, and that's part of what we're trying to do here.

The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!

I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

My dad would be down at the social club and my mum would be looking after us. Their time out together was limited to birthdays and, particularly being Scottish, to Hogmanay and Christmas.

I have been incredibly lucky. My parents are actors; they've been the safety blanket around me.

I'm blessed to have a dad who's always there for me and a mom who's always there for me, and they're on good terms.

My mother always says that you are successful only when you are capable of helping somebody. So I feel whatever I could do I could do only with the blessings of my parents.

Acting with my parents was nerve-wracking. If they watch me act on the sets I feel nervous and blocked.

We stand for getting government out of the way, letting people make good decisions for themselves, in education, returning power to school boards and to teachers and to parents so they can educate the children.

I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.

The bond I feel for my parents is very strong.

I've been very clear that childcare is a parents' issue. Men need to be confident that they can have a conversation with their bosses about the need to work flexibly, as I hope women are.

Both my parents are doctors, so from the time I was a child, I wanted to do medicine.

I've lost both my parents and I don't think you ever get used to it.

Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.

It's funny because I've resisted acting as a career for most of my life. But both my parents told me if I ever want to direct, I should act first because no director should direct until they know what it's like to be in the actor's shoes.

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

In fact, both my parents were doctors but I was a duffer.

Both my parents are doctors, but I'm passionate about dance and have always wanted to act since I was a child.

Both my parents are teachers, and while they were always cool with what I did, they never let me take my education lightly.

Both my parents are doctors.

Both my parents worked when I was growing up.

Most parents vaccinate their kids. That is the bottom line.

My parents eventually moved back to Brazil, so since then, it has been me and my wife, although they are always involved.