I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.
Paulo Coelho
ParentsPeopleMeCrazyWriting
Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front.
Tom Vilsack
HomeSchoolParentsBattleFighting
We had no television, and I only heard the radio when my parents went out to a Bible study group. They liked a quiet, meditative house.
Lizz Wright
ParentsBibleHouseTelevisionQuiet
My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.
Natasha Lyonne
FamilyHomeParentsMeYearBack
It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.
Christopher Eccleston
ParentsBirthDifficultYourTrace
I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
Adam Carolla
GoodParentsPeopleEnoughFeelings
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
Maya Lin
ParentsBetterTeachUsOffEra
I was in Toronto with my parents, and my dad took me to an outdoor hockey rink. I was 3 or 4, and I just remember everything about that day. For some reason, I thought, 'This is it. This is what I'm supposed to do.' And this is around the time that Gretzky came to L.A., so I immediately joined a hockey league.
Wyatt Russell
TimeDayParentsMeHockeyThought
Growing up, I always wanted a dog, but my parents never wanted one.
Sophie Turner
DogParentsGrowing UpGrowingNever
When I was a kid, my parents were always like, 'Money doesn't buy happiness.' I thought, 'You just didn't make enough money.' I had to go find it out for myself.
Mike Posner
HappinessMyselfMoneyParentsYou
My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and there was a lot of loss that came with that, so my parents were reluctant to talk about those things. So I had, by and large, an American childhood.
Dinaw Mengestu
TimeChildhoodParentsPolitical
I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
Kate Micucci
GoodChildrenParentsCalmBring
The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.
Bob Filner
ChildrenGovernmentParentsStart
After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.
Michael Franti
HateParentsGangsterSomeoneHood
I feel pressure because I feel like I have a lot of parents in my life; I have a lot of people who are scared that I'm going to do something wrong.
Shawn Mendes
LifeParentsPeoplePressureMy Life
I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.
Robert Fogel
New YorkBrotherParentsCityBorn
Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers.
Lloyd Alexander
ParentsBookNeverJustNewspapers
My favorite team is the Bengals. In Idaho, we didn't really have a home team. But my parents are from Ohio, and when I was a little kid, my aunts and uncles would send me Boomer Esiason T-shirts and Ickey Woods mini-footballs, so I got hooked on those guys.
Nate Holland
HomeParentsMeTeamWoodsKid
Up until the age of 9 or so, I was an incredibly happy, pretty well-adjusted, funny kid who made my parents laugh all the time. I was a bit of a clown, and I was really happy. And then my parents divorced, and I kind of turned into a different person.
Christopher Stanley
FunnyAgeTimeHappyParentsLaugh
Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.
Campbell Brown
ParentsChooseContentComeChannels
I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.
Mayer Hawthorne
EducationMusicSoulParentsJazz
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.
William H. Gray
SchoolParentsBelieveChooseChoice
It's more responsibility for star kids. Instead of having things easy, expectation is higher. They are compared to their parents, and that's unfair.
Sridevi
ResponsibilityParentsEasyUnfair
I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.
Mikhail Prokhorov
ParentsYouCleverLearnedBothHad
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