Attention Quote by Rainer Weiss

My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I…

— Siri Hustvedt

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

— Andy Partridge

My parents really doted on me in so many ways. They had an intense love and participation in my well-being.

— Nicole Fosse

My parents had no interest in spending a lot of time with me. They were busy doing what they were doing, but they were…

— Angela Bowie

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other…

— Bill Griffith

My parents were just my parents. My dad was doing what he loves to do, he genuinely doesnt care about anything else. And that…

— Kenya Kinski-Jones

Most of my childhood, my father was hardly around.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

My parents were very unusual. They were pro-women and independence and they wanted me to have my own career. And because of my lineage,…

— Anoushka Shankar

My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolwork was very difficult for me…

— Don Rickles

I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly…

— Lisa Lutz

I had good parents, and even though they weren't around, they were always an influence on me.

— John Rzeznik

I didn't want to hurt my parents' feelings about how hard certain things were in my 20s, how hard it was when my dad…

— Charlotte Flair