I received my parents’ permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

I’m exceptionally open with my own parents, and they’re exceptionally open with me.

The investigation involves the parents.

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.

A thousand times today I’ve started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, “Can you tell me…? But then I’d look into the front seat, at my mother’s silent shaking, my father’s grim profile,...

Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.

Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren’t spayed or neutered. I’m proud to support PETA’s work to prevent animal homelessness.

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.

What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind – a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia – and...

When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don’t be surprised to see him/her...

I fully believe in ghosts. I have, my entire life. The first house I ever lived in was haunted. There was a grave of a man in the backyard. I was just a baby then,...

They were no better than common thieves. They stole our childhood. But even with that, I was heartbroken that I would not know the Wozniaks anymore, the only people who came close to being parents...

Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘support’ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures … in the eyes of...

What Phillip Morris is doing here is a tremendous disservice to parents and to infants because it’s increasing the risk infants will die.

When I was a kid, my parents never let me use race as an excuse. They’d say, ‘When you walk into a room and it’s all white, those kids have to work to stand out,...

I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that...

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

By exchanging quality time for ‘turn-up’ times, what many of today’s wayward youngsters have become – men and women of the village have failed them.

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it’s very open; my parents are both hippies.

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

So I’ll send my parents money, and maybe they can get a bigger place, too. They can even relax when they’re older, the way they deserve to. Without having to worry about how they’re going...

With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there’s a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity.

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,...