In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school. - Gillian Anderson Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth. - Dirk Benedict The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters. - Rachel Blanchard Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives. - Kenny Guinn One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they ...

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.' - Nicole Richie 1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too. - Leon Askin I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval. - Jeff Beck I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I'm grateful to my parents for that. - Amanda Burton I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay. - Jenna Bush As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to...

Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean. - Terry Pratchett We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory. - Jeffrey Hunter

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary. - Victor Borge Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together. - Brandi Chastain I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual. - Shelby Lynne

Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents. - Anthony Rapp I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith. - Leah Ward Sears My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents. - Olivia Williams

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with. - Gael Garcia Bernal It's one thing for my parents to behave all secular humanist and gamble with their own eternal souls; however it's altogether not all right that they also gambled with mine: They placed their bets with such self-rightous bravado, but I'm the one who lost. - Chuck Palahniuk And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest. - Thomas Keneally Technologically we can deliver the ability of parents to be able to log into a school intranet, be able to see what homework has been set or look at lesson planning, whether the child is attending, see what the timetable is like, all of that is possible and there are some schools that are doing it already. - Jim ...

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents. - Thomas Bernhard Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. - Mary Garden You know how I think they choose people for Gryffindor team?" said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff another penalty for now reason at all. "It's people they feel sorry for. See, there's Potter, who's got no parents, then there's the Weasleys, who've got no money - you should be on the team, Longbottom, you've got no brains. - J K Rowling You poor lonely boy,' she cried, 'it's so dreadful for you to have no parents.' Well, as my mother was a whore, and my father a drunk, I daresay I don't miss much. - W Som...

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution. - Kareem Abduljabbar My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. - Chinua Achebe Just so we're clear, I dont' secretly want to have sex with either of my parents. Me either. I worked through that in college just to make sure. It was touch and go for a while, especially when my father kept asking me if he looked pretty. - Alex Adams I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941. - Jack Adams He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man. - Darynda Jones She looked at me, confused. "He hardly knew me. My parents dated and...

As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has. - Jay Roach Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy. - Jay Roach

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old. - Gregory Corso Mr. and Mrs. Foster are not my foster parents. Also, they're not even married to each other. Mr. Foster is married to a different Mrs. Foster, and Mrs. Foster, the first Mrs. Foster, is married to a different Mr. Foster. And though I don't know the second Mr. Foster, I heard he was a real asshole. - Jarod Kintz

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. - Maya Angelou However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. - Robert Neelly Bellah Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents' Night. - Beverly Cleary Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons. - Dave Eggers And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents. - John Engler Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and p...

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends. - Kirstie Alley What do we do while we wait for my parents to find Jersey?" She let him go, took a step back. "We live a normal life." The words left his lips without emotion or meaning, because at this point he knew there was no such thing as a normal life for him. Deep in his heart, he was still a vampire. - K C Blake It's one thing for my parents to behave all secular humanist and gamble with their own eternal souls; however it's altogether not all right that they also gambled with mine: They placed their bets with such self-rightous bravado, but I'm the one who lost. - Chuck Palahniuk I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me. - Michael Grant Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything abo...

Dear parents, Jasmine was in a relationship with a dirty homeless boy named Aladdin. Snow White lived alone with 7 men. Pinnochio was a liar. Robin Hood was a thief. Tarzan walked around without clothes on. A stranger kissed sleeping beauty and she married him. Cinderella lied and snuck out at night to attend a party. You can't blame us. We were taught to rebel since a young age. - Walt Disney Company Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail - Arthur Miller

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week. - Maeve Binchy Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication. - James Merrill

This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that. - Douglas Coupland There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that. - Charlotte Gainsbourg I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.' - Nancy Pelosi About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. - Martin Lewis Perl