I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents. – Hunter S. Thompson
There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the next 15 years. – Gagan Narang
I suppose that when I’m building a character, it’s usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up – that nurture side. – Henry Cavill
I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don’t pay attention to the negative. – Guy Fieri
Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century. – H. Robert Horvitz
I don’t remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance. – Gregory Hines
I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played. – Grandmaster Flash
I grew up with Scientology – my parents at one point were clerical. It’s a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it’s had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It’s not a threat or some cult. – Giovanni Ribisi
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. – Gregory Bateson
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents… They treated us like adults. – Henry Louis Gates
My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn’t just show me kids’ films. – Hideo Kojima
My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won’t get it until I’m 18, so I’ll use it for college. – Heather O’Rourke
I was homeschooled on the road for kindergarten, then went to elementary school and a private Christian school while living with my grandparents until I graduated, and I loved it. But my parents were gone a lot. – Hillary Scott
When I was younger, I was very scared to talk to people. To the point where my parents took me to a therapist because they thought something was wrong with me. – Harry Shum, Jr.
Both my parents, grandmother and all close relatives who met Diana liked her very much, and my parents and grandmother never objected to our relationship. They were very much happy for us to make a decision ourselves and made it clear they would support it 100 per cent. We both had their blessing. – Hasnat Khan
A lot of kids have parents who say, ‘Music is hard; maybe you should come up with a Plan B.’ Whenever I hear that kind of ‘advice,’ I think it’s bad parenting. I was lucky to have a parent who assured me it was a possibility to pursue music. – Gerald Clayton
I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad. – Hailey Baldwin
A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city’s underbelly. – Heather O’Neill
I’m a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home. – Gregory Meeks
When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same. – Henry Winkler
The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church. – George Smathers
Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16. – Hugo Weaving
You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they’re just on another planet. – Heather Langenkamp
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it. – Haim Ginott
Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children. – Gordon Neufeld