Quotes of: Single-parent Keyword

My parents were very unusual people, but it was more valuable to have other people say that than me.

Brooke Hayward

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

Bonnie McKee

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

Corbin Bernsen

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

Cory Booker

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

Don Van Vliet

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff.

Greg LeMond

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

Havelock Ellis

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

Harry Mathews

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

Joni Mitchell

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

Joni Mitchell

My children did not go through a stage of being rude to their parents. I'm sorry if that sounds incredible.

Judith Martin

While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.

Judd Nelson

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

Jerry Only

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

John Ratzenberger

Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.

David Blunkett

It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.

Dane DeHaan

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

Dave Eggers

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

David Guetta

I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.

Dinaw Mengestu

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

James Dyson