My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

Modeling a behavior is 100x stronger than telling someone to act differently. Kids imitate the habits of their parents. Teammates match the competitive energy of one another. Employees learn to manage like their supervisor. Be...

No one ever thinks about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves.

That’s what I think our jobs as parents are, to educate as much as possible… I tell them to follow their bliss. The people who follow their bliss in this world tend to be the...

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

She had size and strength beyond her years. But I remember being at the training center in Finland, assisting her dialing home so she could talk to her parents.

It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That’s the most you can ever do.

If only parents would listen! If only they would let us talk instead of forever and eternally and continuously harping and preaching and nagging and correcting and yacking, yacking, yacking! But they won’t listen! They...

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear...

My parents couldn’t afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama...

I am far from a perfect dad. And I always will be. But I’m a damn good dad, and my son will always feel bigger than anything life can throw at him. Why? Because I...

I’ve been alone since my mom met Scott.He sucked the nectar from her heartlike a famished butterfly. No nurture,no nourishment left for Kristina.A vacation is a poor substitutefor love.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

My parents are still married. They don’t weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.

My parents really did believe in the Golden Rule. They really did believe that all people should be treated equally. They had friends of every culture, we celebrated different holidays, but really, secretly behind it,...

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

I want to learn to play the guitar,” and then they found some practical, convenient, cheap way, often involving a church basement, for you to do it. But Hector had not come up with any...

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

Our parents are freaked. But they’re supportive.

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don’t know if it will ever be the same.

I look at him and realize, maybe I overreacted. Maybe more than once.

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.

We drove on in silence, Dad shaking his head in disgust every few minutes. I stared at him, wondering how it was we got to this place. How the same man who held his infant...

There was no point in telling my father. He’d never let me quit after only one day. He couldn’t help me and he’d make some terrible blunder if he tried. Parents are too innocent for...

My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I...

Parents aren’t happy. Schools are unhappy.

When I was 14 years old, I was with my parents at a restaurant. Some people came in and said, ‘Would you like to be a model?’ I went to see them, and they said,...

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence...

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents’ lives before I was born.

In Europe, it’s common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent’s high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.

If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they’re supportive parents.

Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.

I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won’t grow up with an aching void in them–like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never...

I’d always listened to my parents’ Bee Gees albums.

It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents– the people I’d loved the most in the world, the ones I’d always told all my secrets to, the ones I’d wanted...

If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about yourmistakes, learn from them.

I never learned music. I’m quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England. It was very inspiring for me, I’d done all this traveling around, I...

The problem was that I’d never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn’t allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.

I didn’t have a job when I graduated, and I moved back in with my parents. I was miserable. I was putting resumes out left and right, and I didn’t hear anything.

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don’t think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three...

I had a couple of friends in high school. And by a couple I mean my parents.

He’s wrestled in those situations so many times in tournaments, and that’s something not a lot of parents or coaches understood when they watched him. He’s experienced those big-type atmospheres.