My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.
My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.
I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.
I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry that 'my parents wont be there.'
(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.
As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.
My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.
I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.
I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.
One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.
When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.
It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.
When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.
My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.
I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.
I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.
My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.
Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.
