I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even - I spoke French and Yiddish mostly. I was picked on.
Saul Rubinek
Be KindParentsSpeakKindImmigrant
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.
Frank Pittman
AgeFaithJobParentsGeneration
It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
Kristin Scott Thomas
TimeParentsAppreciateLongTakes
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler
FatherMusicWiseParentsOwnLike
I think the mix of narrative and analysis that the 'New Yorker' requires is a perfect expression of what my parents each gave me.
George Packer
ParentsMeThinkPerfectNewMix
'Dear Mr. Henshaw' came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about a boy whose parents were divorced, and so I wrote 'Dear Mr. Henshaw,' and it won the Newbery, and I was - it's been very popular.
Beverly Cleary
ParentsMeBookCountryBoyWrite
I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic.
Lauren Myracle
ParentsWorryWantWhyUnderstand
My earliest memory is a picnic in the park near our house, which was next to Wimbledon Common. Why on earth we went to a park when we lived so near the common is a mystery, but it had formal gardens and lawns - perhaps it was that very difference that took my parents there.
Martin Clunes
MemoryParentsPicnicMysteryHouse
My parents are high school sweethearts.
Becky G
SchoolParentsHigh SchoolHigh
I have sometimes questioned the advice and direction I received from my parents and grandparents, but I never questioned the fact that they loved me. I learned that they were in a better position to know more about right and wrong than I did from my limited understanding and from my limited experience.
James E. Faust
ExperienceParentsMeLovedBetter
My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.
David Guetta
LifeParentsFakeWalkingDJParis
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
Samuel Richardson
ChildrenParentsWorldThoughtQuit
My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.
Tim Burton
FamilyParentsThinkPressureFound
My parents listened to a lot of James Taylor and Hall and Oates. My mom and I used to listen to Liz Phair and Indigo Girls a lot in the car, too.
Frankie Cosmos
CarParentsMomListenUsedToo
I didn't even know how to speak Hindi or act. I didn't think about fame and money. I didn't talk about money with the producers, as I was a minor. My parents handled that part. But I am from a family where money was never an issue.
Krystle D'Souza
FamilyMoneyI AmParentsThink
Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.
Tahj Mowry
FamilyLoveLove IsParentsHouse
Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'
George Will
TreeParentsDrivingComedyHuman
You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.
Bill Bryson
LiveParentsPeopleYouFindWant
I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.
Laurie Graham
LiveGirlTruthThankfulParentsMe
About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
Martin Lewis Perl
ChildrenParentsRussiaUnitedAbout
I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.
Ben McKenzie
MoneyStruggleParentsMovingRich
The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.
James Hillman
SoulParentsBodyChoiceUnderstand
I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.
David Hyde Pierce
FocusDeathSchoolParentsThought
In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.
Sandra Oh
EducationValueParentsGoKnowNow
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