Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely. – Tim Johnson
I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on a tour bus. You’re in a different town every night; as a kid, you’re trying to make friends fast. You try to be funny. – Trevor Moore
My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight. – Vincent Nichols
I made a promise to Michael Brown’s parents that I would do everything to bring all of the resources of the federal government to this investigation so that it is transparent; so that it is a viable investigation, and we get to the truth. – William Lacy Clay, Jr.
I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way. – Summer Glau
My parents always got a kick out of my art. I was always able to make them laugh. As I got older, I remember the thrill I got when I graduated from making my classmates laugh to making adults laugh. Kind of a watershed moment. – Steve Breen
When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law – in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14. – Stephen Mangan
My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it. – Susana Martinez
My parents told me any and every fairy-tale from all around the world. I usually gravitated towards ones with interesting, strong heroines. – Sarah J. Maas
I’m still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I’m there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart. – Vanessa Ferlito
When I first went to ‘National Geographic,’ I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there. – Sam Abell
When I had bone cancer, I was just 11 years old. I think my parents suffered a lot because they worried about my health, my life, so much. For me, it was quite bad feeling during the treatment. But I quite enjoyed staying in the hospital because so many kids played with me. – Yu Chui Yee
Being in a relationship is a hard, painful slog at least once a week, maybe more often – especially if you have a lot of defenses to let down, or if your parents didn’t know how to love you very well. – Tracy McMillan
If I rewind back to that period, I was 8 in 1977 when ‘Star Wars’ was in theaters. I saved up money, or my parents got me the ‘Art of Star Wars’ book. – Tony DiTerlizzi
I’ve said it before – and I’ll say it again: it always seems to me that we come to know our same-sex parents through the bodily and the involuntary; through a kind of fossicking of our own physical strata. As we come to resemble our fathers, so we re-encounter the individual who reared us. – Will Self
It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control. – Sendhil Mullainathan
I was born and raised Catholic, so it’s in my blood. I don’t go to church… I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion. – Tom Araya
I didn’t have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did for me. – Tre Cool
As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think. – Terry McMillan
I started cooking 30-something years ago. When I was 14, 15, I was a short-order cook in a snack bar. That was at a place called the Gran Centurions. It was an Italian-American swim club my parents belonged to. – Tom Colicchio
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don’t have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant’s knee or something like that. – Tony Goldwyn
As a man, I’ve been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents. – Sidney Poitier
There are uses to adversity, and they don’t reveal themselves until tested. Whether it’s serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths. – Sonia Sotomayor
As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older – I realized they were really cool. – Tessa Thompson
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion. – Sufjan Stevens
I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal’s office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career. – William Joyce
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn’t feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics. – Viswanathan Anand