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I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.
My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.
My parents were comfortable with me exploring areas that they were not proficient in. Some parents just aren't comfortable with that.
My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They told me to make sure that you are happy.
I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.
We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.
Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
I can't do that. I'm already the single guy living in his parents' house. I can't be seen digging a grave in the middle of the night.
As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.
I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.
Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.
We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.
It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.
Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.
Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.
Everybody is agreeing so tersely. I just had a flashback to the month before my parents finally admitted they were getting a divorce.
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.
I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird?
I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.
I wanted to create a place where parents can come and find products that are safe for their children, as well as good for the planet.
Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.
No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.
Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.
Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.
That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.
Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'
I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.
I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.
When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.
You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.
Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.
I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.
Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.
My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.
While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.
I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.
the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.
The thing that every parent hopes for is that the baby's healthy, I'm healthy. No matter how you feel, that's the most important thing.
My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.
My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.