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.

When I told my parents, ‘I’m going to be an actor,’ they screamed and wept and freaked out.

Poverty doesn’t make parents unfit any more than wealth deems them appropriate.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to...

That’s right”, she says, wiping tears from her cheeks. “You weren’t with me that time I walked in on them doing the deed. Seriously Freudian horror.””You saw your parents at the best,” Mom murmurs, before...

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else’s.

Sigara zilizidi kuvutwa, ndani ya nyumba, na magaidi wale wawili, wakati Murphy akisinzia kudanganyia kama kweli nguvu zilishamwisha. Alimfikiria tena mpenzi wake Sophia, safari hii sana. Alimkumbuka Debbie; hakujua alikuwa wapi na hakujua mama yake...

You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they’re just on another planet.

I want to visit my parents graves and see the cherry tree blossom in Japan again.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

Going home means going back in time. It’s not a trip you care to take alone, and anyway, isn’t that the main reason to take a mate? So you have an ally in the civil...

When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age.

My two parents represent the single greatest influence on my life. And if my dad had been there for me, it would be the double greatest influence on my life.

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers’ education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing...

I was brought up in a way that when you’re at a dinner party, you don’t grab a chip unless it’s been offered to everyone else. It’s the manners of being brought up by English...

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish,...

My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land,...

The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up. That communication style becomes our normal way of dealing with issues, our blueprint for communication. It’s what we know and...

Because they no longer live with their parents, they’ll need to insure their car on their own. They may find that insurance is very expensive. College grads tend to want to go out and buy...

They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

I don’t know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents’ marriage. And it’s interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

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.

One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is the empowerment to create a life they love, filled with purposeful, enjoyable work, and relationships they hold dear.

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred – Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned...

This is so disrespectful to parents.

Thirteen years and six albums to get here, … I’d like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual. And I stand here tonight and represent nothing but music.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

Some of the things I hated my parents for when I was younger are the same things I love my parents for now that I’m older.

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

Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons.

My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.

I want parents out there to know that it’s totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were...

Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.

I think it’s up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

New Rule: Don’t name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means...

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care...

a very competitive season for parents’ dollars.

They bounce pretty quickly from one activity to the next. Sometimes it is more difficult on the parents and the adults than it is on the kids.

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Both my parents are actors, and I saw them struggle with work, waiting for phone calls.

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best – it’s so embarrassing, isn’t it? I was always the best at everything.

Leesha knew from experience that when parents don’t parent, kids grow up fast.

Growing up in New York with artist parents – a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo – I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism....

We want to communicate to the parents and the general public . . . of the direction we’re going.

Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.

I’m quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

Milton’s learned vocabulary […] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents’ speech as heard by the child.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don’t want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.