My parents didn't know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your… — Jon Gresham Copy Share Image
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
It amazes me that the new age of parenting gives children choices. When I was a child the choice I had was… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
When I got cut from the National Football League, I had nowhere to go. I moved in with my parents until I… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
Parents of all income levels deserve options for child care while they work so they can be free of the worry that… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in… — Kevin Connolly Copy Share Image
I never dreamed, when I received a small table for a Christmas present from my parents, I would have the career that… — Stephen Hendry Copy Share Image
The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family,… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been he would have… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We came to the U.S. with $40. My parents were both professionals in China who had difficulty finding employment here. They worked… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
I was born in Cuckfield, West Sussex, but then spent some time in the Bahamas, where my parents moved to join my… — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
Sure I love my parents, but they're going through this phase of thinking I'm too young to make my own decisions. About… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's… — Lee Haney Copy Share Image
“On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
My parents brought me up to be comfortable in one's own body. And I have always been comfortable in my own skin. — Varun Dhawan Copy Share Image
Growing up watching WWE, they used to have bra-and-panties matches or pillow fights, and that's why my mom didn't want me to… — Bayley Copy Share Image
If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing… — Kevin Richardson Copy Share Image
Remember to love your parents...We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really, really wanted to be an Olympian. My parents knew about this dream of mine, and they suggested I try my… — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
I want to be an involved parent in my daughter's life and do the things that other parents do, like go to… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Growing up, our household felt unusual because none of my friends' parents had creative jobs like mine did: my dad was an… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
My parents met in the theatre, and I thought that was so romantic. My dad was a scenic designer and my mom… — Skye McCole Bartusiak Copy Share Image
My parents were always doubtful about my making a living as an artist. Even when I was up for the Turner Prize,… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
My parents are very trusting. They have always supported my decisions. Sometimes I feel they trust me too much. — Nidhhi Agerwal Copy Share Image
My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s. — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize. — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
Through it all, the bad and the horrible, you taught me to hold my chin up high and walk with my back… — Lily Cruz Copy Share Image
“Damn! - I'd rather walk into something of my own accord than to be frogmarched into it." "So it says here in… — Eric Frank Russell Copy Share Image
