Quotes of: Parental Keyword

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

Rupert Penry-Jones

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Ron Taffel

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

Sandra Bullock

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

Margaret Spellings

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

Maurice Sendak

My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.

Max von Sydow

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

Ella Maillart

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.

Sissy Spacek

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

Jane Smiley

It wasn't until I got 'SNL' that my parents told me they were a little bit worried, like that I would have food to eat.

Jorma Taccone

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

Franz Boas

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

Bill Dedman

When I was a teenager, my parents made me take a part-time job at the local Black Eyed Pea, which was a home-cooked-food family restaurant.

Ashley Jones

We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.

Bethany Hamilton

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

Camryn Manheim

I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

Faith Hill

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.

Henry Cavill

I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.

Henry Thomas

Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

Janine di Giovanni

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

Joe Manchin

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

Miguel