No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.
Silvan Shalom
ChildrenParentsYouFindLiving
I grew up looking at my parents as equals.
Mona Eltahawy
ParentsLookingUpEqualsGrew
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
Doris Lessing
DreamsParentsLikeOurUseNeeded
My parents have been with me every step of the way.
Haley Reinhart
StepParentsMeWayBeenEvery Step
If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.
Jenny McCarthy
ChildrenParentsYouAskUpAutism
I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
Annie Lennox
LifeWarParentsBornHardUp
Young parents in America are holy and not to be messed with. If they say something is correct, we all acquiesce. And is there any man, woman or canine who doesn't leap out of the way when one of those giant, all-terrain Bugaboo strollers comes barreling down the sidewalk?
Amity Shlaes
WomanManParentsAmericaDownSay
My parents are very supportive and proud.
Todd Haynes
ParentsProudSupportiveVery
I lost both my parents young - but I have felt their presence throughout my life.
Roma Downey
LifeParentsMy LifeLostYoung
My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm really proud of that.
Josh Duhamel
MyselfParentsProudLastWanted
I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.
Laura Dern
ParentsKnowWaySeeI SeeSeen
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
Colin Firth
MedicalParentsPeopleWayVirtue
Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.
Daisy Ridley
LifeAloneParentsPeopleBetter
Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.
Max Irons
CarParentsDriveAdviceYouActing
In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.
Phil Collins
MarriageWifeParentsAmericaResult
I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano.
Simon Rattle
FatherMusicParentsLovedAlways
I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.
Monica Vitti
FreedomPowerParentsTwoBrothers
As parents, we all want the best for our children.
Doug Ducey
ChildrenBestParentsWantOur
Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.
Haley Joel Osment
ParentsMeDieHouseFirstHard
Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness, but they also built provisional families, and inside our bubble there was joy, understanding, an intimate language I could never translate - and above all there was song.
Jenny Zhang
FamilyLonelinessJoyHappyParents
I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.
Anthony Hopkins
ParentsBelieveIdeaLikeInterfere
My parents always used to ask me to settle down, and I could never understand that term. However, after marriage, I have finally realised the importance of having a companion.
Amruta Khanvilkar
MarriageParentsMeDownUnderstand
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.
Thomas Friedman
HomeWarParentsMomWorldNavy
I'm sure that my parents' behavior has entered my work, I'm sorry to say. I don't think you need to have a difficult childhood to be funny, but it helps.
Roz Chast
WorkFunnyChildhoodParentsSorry
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