I must admit, even though I’m the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I’m going to check Mom’s genealogy. – Harvey Weinstein
When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me. – Hillary Clinton
My parents were all into macrobiotic cooking and natural cooking, and my sister was a vegetarian. I wasn’t down with that. – Guy Fieri
My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight. – Haley Reinhart
I was brought up in a way that when you’re at a dinner party, you don’t grab a chip unless it’s been offered to everyone else. It’s the manners of being brought up by English parents. – Hugh Jackman
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves. – Havelock Ellis
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break. – Harry S Truman
I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way – if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would’ve lost custody. – Hari Kondabolu
As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents’ expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker. – Hallie Ephron
My parents didn’t want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood. – Harry Shearer
My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we’d grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies. – Holly Near
I hate the cliche of ‘just have fun,’ but what I’ve seen in today’s sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids. – Hope Solo
I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I’m more into target stuff. – Greg LeMond
Even if your parents don’t have Alzheimer’s or aren’t in a wheelchair, your parents get old – if you’re lucky to have parents who live for a long time. It’s a challenge, and it’s difficult and lovely and touching and awful and ghastly and real. – Gemma Jones
I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren’t showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students. – Henry Thomas
My parents were very musical in the sense that they were, you know, music lovers and avid buyers of records, but none of them actually play an instrument. – Gustavo Santaolalla
Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as ‘รด?10 poms.’ Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians – to be honest, educated white people – to come and live in Australia. – Hugh Jackman
Peer attachments are not the problem themselves. It’s when they compete with adult attachments that the problems emerge. It’s just like when siblings get attached to each other. If they start revolving around each other, then the parents can’t do anything with them because it’s a competing attachment. – Gordon Neufeld
I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape – jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I’ll never forget. – Guy Lafleur
I come from a family of working people. My parents were Guatemalan immigrants who spent most of their lives in the service industry. – Hector Tobar
We share responsibility. It’s important to have a good spouse; that’s where I sympathize with single parents. – Hunter Tylo
Rich, smart parents tend to have rich, smart kids – not because it’s genetic but because they can create a home environment and sensory stimulation that lower-income kids often don’t get. – George Kaiser
I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see ‘Annie’ and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it. – Gabriel Macht
From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that’s how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games. – Gavin O’Connor
It’s nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents. – Guy Lafleur
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman. – Herb Ritts
I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing. – Garth Nix
Children tease each other because you’re short or you’re tall or you’re a redhead or because you’re ugly or because you’re smart or because you’re dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others. – Heather Wilson