Dad Quote by Jeff Foxworthy

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

— Janis Joplin

I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.

— Bill Mumy

When my brother was a child, he kept telling my mom he wanted to be in the box. She didn't get it - he…

— Aldis Hodge

I wondered how television worked. I thought about how an interior decorator decided on colors and styles. I wondered, when babies tarted learning how…

— Cupcake Brown

When I was growing up we didn't have TV in our house which is perhaps why I work in TV because it seemed such…

— Vick Hope

Television has been a powerful medium and it has been a huge part of my life at least 15 years.

— Pankaj Kapur

Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a…

— Fred Allen

I grew up in front of a TV.

— Jemaine Clement

When I was a little girl and said I wanted to be inside the TV, my mum really did believe that I could.

— A. J. Odudu

My parents weren't keen on me watching television when I was growing up, in the 70s and 80s, which is ironic given that I've…

— Lucy Worsley

That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean,…

— Katherine Paterson

I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one.

— Carl Reiner