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My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had. — Bethany Hamilton

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement. — Kamala Harris

My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room. — Alessia Cara

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity. — Robert Griffin III

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life. — John Vane

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. — Phyllis Diller

Without parents who had time for her, at an early age she had made herself self-sufficient. — Hanif Kureishi

I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever laughed at them. — Kurt Vonnegut

Parents are supposed to protect you, but they seem to be really, really lousy at it. — Hannah Harrington

My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker. — Philippe Petit

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school. — Lyle Lovett

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at. — Bill Ayers

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress. — Gena Rowlands

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time. — Tory Burch

She's a serial kisser. I think her parents are French. — C.C. Hunter

At the greatest levels of affluence, and the deepest levels of poverty, parents share the same desire for their children to have a better future. — Adam Braun

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it. — Brigitte Bardot

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment. — Bonnie Hammer

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. — Alan Bennett

My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect, they are no real part of it. — John Gimlette

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework. — Sara Paretsky

Johnny looked at her. "I think we can't make people love us."
"Including our parents?"
Especially our parents. — Kristin Hannah

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse. — Richard Dawkins

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education. — Julie Bowen

My parents also had a tough time recognizing me at first. because my eyes were black and swollen shut and I had two tubes coming out of my head. — Amy Rankin

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end. — Amy Waldman

My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home. — Jessica Alba

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it. — Micky Dolenz

My parents were not theatrical at all. — Jane Asher

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it. — Patti Smith

Lost children filled every chair at the headquarters of the Columbian Guard; nineteen spent the night and were claimed by their parents the next day. — Erik Larson

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents. — Jane D. Hull

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents. — George Clooney

Kids don't think about their folks nearly as much as everybody imagines. Parents are just there, like background music at the mall. — Ron Koertge

When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your parents. — Camilla Way

I'm going to do. I want to look at the microcard without my parents or Bram glancing — Ally Condie

Philanthropy has always been something that I've been kind of interested in because I think it was instilled at a very young age through my parents. — Serinda Swan

It is very likely that workhouse children were better fed than their contemporaries living at home with poor parents. Of — Lesley Hulonce

Have we arrived at our own faith and our own path or simply internalized the beliefs of parents, clergy, spouse, or friends? — Joan Z. Borysenko

Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times. — Beeban Kidron

I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her. — Kay Panabaker

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me. — Maureen O'Hara

I'll always be a Georgia girl at heart, but I live in Los Angeles full time. My parents still live in Georgia, so I go home as often as I can. — Melissa Ordway

But we were at your parents' dining table." I stare up at him, completely bewildered.
"No one's ever said no to me before. And it's so - hot. — E.L. James

You couldn't guess at a breed to look at him, but at least one of his parents must have been a wooly mammoth. — Jim Butcher

Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me? — Gregory Maguire

Who you are is enough for me. I look at you and all I see, is the champion I knew you would be. — Brittney Brady

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students. — Andy Hargreaves

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial. — Corey Feldman

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead. — John C. Hawkes

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all. — Natalia Ginzburg

My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school. — Wendi Deng Murdoch

My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting. — Chuck Palahniuk

My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it. — Kiefer Sutherland

I was good at keeping secrets from my parents (it's one of the things we learn while growing up, after all). — Jojo Moyes

I never had that wicked stepmother or evil stepfather thing at all. I'm very close to both step-parents and I consider them to be my parents, too. — Mark Ronson

At some point you lose sight of your actual parents; you just see a basketful of history and unresolved issues. — Jonathan Tropper

He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man. — Darynda Jones

I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University. — Emilio Ambasz

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all. — Perry Brass

You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different. — Christian Boltanski

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good. — Sandra Tsing Loh

My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents. — Rupert Murdoch

I have always been motivated by a greater good. As a child, I was taught by my parents to be good and to do good at all times and in all ways! — James May

Our parents' death broke his sense of wonder. My left-brained brother, who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries. — Lauren DeStefano

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home. — Mike Fitzpatrick

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. — Marian Wright Edelman

Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000. — Foster Friess

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them. — Boy George

I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs. — Dominique Moceanu

Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children. — Leo Tolstoy

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all. — Bernadette Devlin

What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all. — Rodney Dangerfield

That just goes to show you that parents can do all they can for you, but at the end of the day it's up to you whether you listen or not. — Shareef Jaudon

My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school. — Bill Callahan

My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility. — Claire Danes

You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents. — A.S. Byatt

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents. — Barbara Mertz

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.. — Wm. Paul Young

We don't get to choose our parents," Sunny said. "If we did, some of us might choose never to be born at all. — Jamie Ford

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

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities. — George Herbert

My parents, worried that I might become popular at school, got me a book of puns at an impressionable age. — Alexandra Petri

That's the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don't really care, or at least they don't care enough to let it affect the outcome. — Peter Monn

God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old. — Lauren Myracle

I loved my parents and wanted to make them proud of me - but no longer at the cost of my own happiness. — Rachel Hawthorne

Our Parents were gods and monsters at the same time. Maybe we're all like that- gods and monsters — Maxine Paetro

I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at! — Gabrielle Aplin

I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport. — Lupita Nyong'o

It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control. — Sendhil Mullainathan

Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood. — Honore De Balzac

I think my parents knew before I did that I was going to be an actress, because I was doing impressions of Margaret Thatcher at the age of four. — Michelle Dockery

I'm glad your parents will be at the wedding. It's important for you to see them, — Robin Mahle

As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door ... — Dana Gould

My parents are really quite strict, so I have to be home at a certain time - even now, at the age of 25. — Tena Desae

my parents are very good at bribery. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

Actually, at home, my parents simply referred to him as "bro. — Julie Murphy

By the late '60s, the culture gap separating young people from their parents was perhaps greater than at any point since the early 19th century. — Tony Judt

I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate. — Jami Attenberg