When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.
Alvy Singer: Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat... college.
I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.
It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
We both know dad was my parental trash can, the fatherly receptacle on whom I dumped my emotions.
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.
My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.
If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.
If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.
If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.
When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.
My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.
The most incredible thing about being a parent is seeing your own personality come out in your children.
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t oke enough holes to drain it dry.
