'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 MansonI 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 PittThe best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
Natalie PortmanA self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents!
Al GoldsteinFor the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.
Earl WilsonMy 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 GreenLittle League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi BerraI wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star
Shania TwainLike all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
Michelle PfeifferMy 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 AlonsoA child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy GrahamWhy do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
Claudette ColbertI think that when people hear that my middle name is Moon they start to wonder a thing or two about my parents!
Soleil FryeFortunately, my parents always encouraged me to be grateful that I was healthy, and stand up and be proud and carry myself with dignity.
Susan AntonParents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.
Peter UstinovKids 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 CatesWe will provide a right for parents to request to work flexible hours when their child is young.
Stephen ByersParents 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 MartinThe first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence DarrowMost of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlinI am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Arthur RimbaudPsychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence PeterThe 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 HofferI 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'BrienI think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people
Joely FisherAll children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore VidalMy parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7
David BeckhamLoyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.
John MortimerFrom birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash
Sophie TuckerChildren nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannise their teachers.
SocratesThe Prince of Wales lives in a world where everybody says Yes, and the only people who can tell him things he doesn't want to hear are his parents.
Paul BurrellThe parents were abed and sleeping. The clock on the wall ticked loudly and lazily, as if it had time to spare
Henry Jackson Van DykeMy parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.
Laura LinneyA Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
Philip RothThe thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children!
King Edward VIIIPeople who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
Aharon AppelfeldChildren aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden NashIf 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 SalingerWe are very much just parents together, although we have moments of being sexy and fun and I do find him [Pitt] sexy.
Angelina JolieParents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden NashParents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John LockeMy heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Michael JordanI'm probably going to be one of those very embarrassing parents who's a naturist.
Robbie WilliamsAll that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.
Catherine Zeta JonesMaybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
Jim CarreyThe excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
Thomas HardyOne 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 WoodsThe beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney HarrisThe 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 SchumpeterI don't think my parents know what I do.
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