Ability Quote by Abby Sunderland

I was just grateful for the fact that I was able to repay my parents for their sacrifices throughout my career.

— Dinah Jane

I'm so grateful to my parents for my upbringing and for all of the opportunities that I was provided with, but I also learned…

— Ivanka Trump

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very…

— Laurel Clark

I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led…

— George J. Mitchell

I was just so fortunate to have parents who encouraged me to try things and do what I wanted.

— Andrew W.K

My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to…

— Vidya Balan

My parents made every effort to encourage me to pursue anything in life that I enjoyed or found appealing so that I would be…

— Elliot Knight

I was lucky with my parents, for my mom and my dad particularly, much more than my mom, who was very compassionate and loving…

— Shep Gordon

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in…

— Koichi Tanaka

My parents are the hardest-working people I ever knew: they always worked every day, all day; they had to come up with the solutions…

— Peggy Whitson

My parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.

— Bruce Brown

My parents were very proud of me. After they passed, my career doesn't mean as much to me.

— Joyce Carol Oates