Parents Quotes

This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.

Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.

I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.

I think my parents were high when they named me.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

My own parents loved each other very much.

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

If I had been living through the '80s, I probably would've gotten into a lot more trouble than my parents.