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My name is Brian Green by birth. Austin was made up by my parents when I was nine, because there was another Brian Green in the Screen Actors Guild.
Brian Austin Green

Fortunately, my parents always encouraged me to be grateful that I was healthy, and stand up and be proud and carry myself with dignity.
Susan Anton

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.
Queen Mary

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
Eric Hoffer

I didn't understand why he wasn't returning my calls [when her parents split]
Nicole Richie

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy Graham

All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.
Catherine Zeta Jones

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore Vidal

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
Aharon Appelfeld

Kids today are much more independent than their parents were. We're really into getting jobs and we mature sexually much earlier than a generation ago. Or, at least, we are involved in sex earlier
Phoebe Cates

Rather than just a binary choice between grammar schools for some and secondary modern for others, it is far better to have wider diversity in schools and greater choice for parents
David Davis

Not being born to parents who were accountants was probably my biggest mistake.
Chris Eubank

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. (Opening line, The Catcher in the Rye)
J D Salinger

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
Judith Martin

Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
Roald Dahl

My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.
Fernando Alonso

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Rodney Dangerfield

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7
David Beckham

If I had to choose between wealth and a united family, I would 1,000 per cent have preferred my parents to stay together.
Minnie Driver

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'we saw your movie'. 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?'
Brad Pitt

One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.
Tiger Woods

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who (The True-Born Englishman)
Daniel Defoe

Aduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
Erma Bombeck

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill Cosby

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Michael Jordan

The parents were abed and sleeping. The clock on the wall ticked loudly and lazily, as if it had time to spare
Henry Jackson Van Dyke

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents!
Al Goldstein

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R Buckminster Fuller

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
Doris Day

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: 'Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?'
J A Schumpeter

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.
Earl Wilson

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
Natalie Portman

I find it easy to understand why the likes of Sarah-Louise end up going astray. Everybody hits that stage where the more your parents try to keep you close, the more you want to break free. But I was nowhere near as bad as Sarah-Louise is, although my mum might disagree.
Tina O'Brien

My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
Kelly Ripa

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
Jane Howard

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi Berra

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
Fannie Flagg

'I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.'
Shirley Manson

I'm probably going to be one of those very embarrassing parents who's a naturist.
Robbie Williams

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.
John Mortimer

Being an MP is the sort of job all working class parents want for their children - clean, indoor and no heavy lifting.
Dianne Abbott

Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.
Peter Ustinov

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
Philip Roth

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles DeLint

I don't think my parents know what I do.
John Malkovich



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