My parents weren’t stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn’t a do or die thing, like, ‘You have to do this or you’re done.’ – Harry Shum, Jr.
When I was younger, even though I had a big brother, my parents would give me the house key every day. – Granit Xhaka
My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together – my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I’d be growing corn in a different way. – Howard Graham Buffett
My parents separated soon after I was born, so I left Helsinki when I was a year old. My mother took me to Paris and then other places throughout Western Europe. – George Gaynes
I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that. – Hilary Duff
With parents, that’s the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum. – Harry Shum, Jr.
Both my parents are immigrants. I’ve seen different struggles they’ve had. There’s a reason you don’t see me using accents. I don’t do impressions of my folks. When I’m doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you’re laughing, I’m thinking, ‘When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?’ – Hari Kondabolu
Ethiopia’s government is doing a commendable job of working closely with donors and humanitarian organizations to educate parents about child marriage, and to support organizations like the Hamlin Fistula Hospital. – Helene D. Gayle
Parents who struggle to get a witness of the Savior into the heart of a child will be helped as they seek for a way to bring the words and the spirit of the Book of Mormon into the home and all the lives in their family. – Henry B. Eyring
Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream. – George Kaiser
Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be. – Gallagher
I don’t know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn’t the child of industry parents, and I didn’t have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that. – Henry Thomas
I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time – or at least in their parents’ basement – but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever. – Henry Rollins
I’ve always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems. – Helen Hunt
My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business. – Haley Joel Osment
Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn’t real anymore, and that changes your perspective. It makes you more wary but also means you are better equipped to deal with challenges. – Hannah Ware
My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do. – Gwen Stefani
Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice. – Hank Johnson
My parents always told me I’m beautiful the way that I am, and I never thought to myself that I needed to be skinny because there’s a magazine out there that said, ‘Oh, size two,’ or, ‘Oh, this girl’s beautiful because she’s skinny.’ – Hayley Hasselhoff
My team are incredible, and I have the most amazing parents and beautiful girlfriend in the world. – Greg Rutherford
Maybe the perceived fact that smart, rich parents tended to have smart, rich kids was largely due to the fact that they also tended to have stay-at-home moms or nannies who read to their kids, held them, put mobiles over their cribs, playing those annoying ditties, and sent them off for SAT training at six months. – George Kaiser
My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through, like when you’re 13 and you think you’re too cool for your parents. When you’re embarrassed by them and stuff. We never went through that because I was constantly working and she constantly had to be there. – Hilary Duff
For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it’s a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there – my wife, my parents and my musical family. – Gustavo Dudamel
I never learned music. I’m quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England. It was very inspiring for me, I’d done all this traveling around, I came back living with my parents, everyone around me was like they’re living in a soap opera. – Graham Parker
My brother still lives in the house my parents owned in Fairborn. I go back there a lot to visit friends and keep my connection to the National Museum of the Air Force and my membership with the Dayton Engineers Club. – Gregory H. Johnson
My parents moved out to California in 1968 from Ohio in a VW station wagon pulling a little trailer. I was 4 months old. They were following the energy out here. – Guy Fieri
