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“My parents are proud of me being an actor.”

“My parents are proud of their Indian heritage, but they came halfway across the world so their children could be born here, raised here as Americans. They came legally, but they came here in search of the American dream, in search of freedom and opportunity.”

World Children Dream Opportunity Parent Born Proud Raised Indian Heritage American Dream Halfway

Author:Bobby Jindal

“My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.”

Way Parent Mom Dad Mets My Dad Conservative My Mom Quaint Aristocratic

Author:SZA

“My parents are really good people. . .and mostly normal. . . Their rules made practical sense--eat your vegetables, don't ride your bike through cow manure, and don't let your little brother eat his boogers--all of which were good but weren't exactly rules with life-changing consequences if they weren't followed.”

Childhood Parents Parenthood Parents And Children Rules Rules To Live By Boogers House Rules

Author:Leah Darrow

Source: The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God's Vision for Love and True Worth

“My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.”

Thinking Way Wells Wanted Parent Blame Guilt Denial

Author:Teri Hatcher

“My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.”

Firsts Two Parent Magic Responsible Driving Tricks Two Things Magician Magic Tricks

Author:Fernando Alonso

“My parents are retired, basically.”

Parent Retired

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“My parents are sickeningly in love, and deserve every single moment of their happily ever after. It's probably no surprise my standards are so skyscraper high, soaring amongst the clouds – set to have my heart turning to ice from living at such an altitude. In my experience, nothing and no one has ever came close to the kind of relationship they have, and I simply refuse to settle for anything less than the person who lets me shine the brightest while being myself.”

High Expectations Good Example

Author:Elliott Rose

Source: Taming the Heart

“My parents are so different, it's difficult to believe that they ever found each other.”

Parents

Author:Maggie Su

Source: Blob: A Love Story

“My parents are still together. I have two sisters. I travel the world and they are the people I speak to.”

People World Stills Two Together Speak Parent Travel The World Two Sisters

Author:James Blunt

“My parents are supportive of anything I want to do, as long as it's not bad.”

Want Long Parent Supportive

Author:Zoey Deutch

“My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.”

Moments Parent Levels Appreciation

Author:Rashida Jones

“My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.”

Government Together Lasts Mother Father Parent Class Teacher Sea Middle Design Mines Middle Class Substitutes Sixty

Author:Lewis Black

“My parents are the ones who really help me be grounded. I still go to school, I still do fun stuff with my friends; for the most part, I am a normal kid. It just so happens that I do some acting too!”

Stills Helping Happens Kids School Fun Stuff Parent Acting Normal My Friends Help Me Grounded Fun Stuff

Author:Joshua Rush

“My parents are the people that led me here. My mom helped me learn to sing and she travels with me.”

People Parent Mom My Mom

Author:Coco Jones

“My parents are very comfortable with the way that I am, and I think they've always been. Without that, I don't think that I would have ever have been able to grow into the person that I am today. I never felt like I was hiding anything from them.”

Thinking Way Persons Has Beens Today Able Grows Felt Parent Comfortable Hiding

Author:Jason Wu

“My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - dont depend on other people, do it yourself.”

People Hard Values Parent Taught Hard Work Depends Conservative Do It Yourself Value Of Hard Work

Author:Kyrsten Sinema

“My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.”

Funny Speak Parent Deals Color Speak English

Author:Margaret Cho

“My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.”

People Giving Children Two Hard Parent Dog Brother Hard Work Dad Comfortable My Dad Dna Two Brothers Comfortable Life

Author:David Oyelowo

“My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor. I am passionate about acting. Girls in our family are not allowed to act is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother but now no more.”

Persons Facts Mother Girl Actors Father Parent Acting Modern Passionate Actresses Our Family Outdated

Author:Kareena Kapoor

“My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as Im in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.”

Has Beens Stills Parent Decision Acting Worry Wise Proud Tough Profession Guarantees Tough Times

Author:David Harewood

“My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.”

World Parent Eccentric Quirky

Author:Katy Perry

“My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.”

Kind School Parent Pay Successful Dad Lucky Areas My Dad Expensive Fund Harvard Seattle Tuition Private School Trust Funds

Author:Bill Gates

“My parents are very well-behaved. If anything, if my Mom were here right now, she would hug and kiss every one of you hello, and then she would feed you.”

Ifs Wells Parent Mom Right Now Kissing My Mom Hug Hello

Author:Tina Fey

“My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.”

People Parent Wonderful Grateful Idealism

Author:Hugh Hefner

“My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.”

People Parent Study Wonderful Expectations Practicals Sensible Academic

Author:Gemma Chan

“My parents are worried about me, so they take me to a lady, so I can talk about my dragon. She says she knows about dragons like mine. I am hoping for a magic spell or a dragon slayer, with sword in hand. No such luck; just a tiny woman dressed in a short skirt with a lot of pleats and a fancy top with tons of sparkles. […] She looks me in the eye and for some reason I don't feel like I have to look away.”

Anxiety Woman Therapy Dragon Eye Contact Therapist Social Phobia Magic Spell Dragon Slayer For Some Reason

Author:Jan Esh & Stephen Nauta

Source: Help! There's a Dragon in My Head

“My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this thing called the Eisteddfod where people compete in singing and acting and dancing and oratory all sorts of things. From a very young age, it's been a part of my upbringing.”

People Age School Young Artist Language Parent Community Acting Growing Up Growing Singing Dancing Young Age Upbringing Wales Oratory Welsh Singing And Acting Schools And Community

Author:Iwan Rheon

“My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.”

Littles Stills Parent Arguing Remembered Little Things Disguise

Author:Gene Tierney

Source: Self-portrait

“My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.”

World Needs Wells Parent This World Sense Of Humor

Author:Warwick Davis

“My parents’ attempts to stop my habit were through guilt and force. They grounded me several times. Carl made cracks when he felt that I was eating too much and snide comments on my weight yo-yoing. They sent me to psychiatrists who tried to quick fix me by Paxil, Zoloft, and Effexor prescriptions. All were antidepressants with weight gain for side effects, which might as well have been rat poison for a bulimic.”

Eating Disorders Bulimia Feminist Memoir Just Another Number Quote Maggie Young Quote

Author:Maggie Young

Source: Just Another Number

“My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.”

Christian Parent Fundamentalist

Author:Sherman Alexie

“My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.”

Believe Children Stories Parent Happy Endings

Author:Glen Duncan

“My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin”

Believe Parent Principles Stronger Swim Makes You Stronger Sink Or Swim

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“My parents blessed me with directives to think, to be aware of my choices and their repercussions. They were always trying to teach me how to think, rather than what to think.”

Thinking Choices Family Parents Parents And Children Repercussions Family Relations

Author:Cathy Burnham Martin

Source: Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“My parents both arrived in New York City after World War II, at different times but for the same reason the search for work. They left a country they loved, but where they could not make a living. About half a million Puerto Ricans made the same journey fleeing economic despair, the result of the US colonization of the island. Government officials blamed the people for the disastrous economic situation claiming that the problem was "overpopulation." They promoted the mass exodus of Puerto Ricans and implemented policies that sterilized thousands of poor and working women. The Young Lords are the sons and daughters of this Great Migration. As young people growing up in the United States, we witnessed how our parents were exploited, degraded, and humiliated. We felt their suffering, and we too had experiences with poverty and racism. All of this propelled us into action to fight for justice.”

Justice United States Us History Colonization Puerto Rico Sterilization Great Migration Young Lords Puerto Rican History

Author:Iris Morales

Source: Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords, 1969-1976

“My parents both came from very poor working-class families.”

Parent Poor Class Working Class

Author:George Michael

“My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching Candid Camera, I finally understood what comedy was all about. I heard the laughter on television, I turned around and saw my parents laughing, and that's when I thought: 'This is great. This is what I can do. I'm gonna prank somebody.'”

I Can Night Parent Can Do Laughing Saws Comedy Heard Television Laughter Understood Cameras Sense Of Humor Laughed One Night Candid Pranks Candid Camera

Author:Howie Mandel

“My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.”

People Children Important Book Real Kids Language Parent Pleasure Cutting Degrees Coffee Fats Winner Spokes Museums Drank Oxford Overweight Foreign Language Fat Kid

Author:Arabella Weir

“My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L.A. when they met each other. So we were always raised in this environment and when we moved to the ashram in Florida it was just like, "Oh, wow, now all of a sudden there's more people like us," because we were growing up in the middle of Texas with our parents, always being the weirdos.”

People Parent Growing Up Environment Growing Middle Materials Mets Moved Raised Texas Wow Florida Monk Weirdo

Author:Taraka Larson

“My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.”

Wells Parent Rights Movement Involved My Friends Congress Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Civil Right Movement Civil Rights Leaders

Author:Janis Ian

“My parents both worked - my mom was an accountant, and my dad is a builder - and that taught me about having a really strong work ethic, and I respected them a lot for that.”

Strong Parent Taught Mom Dad Ethics My Dad My Mom Work Ethic Builder Accountants Strong Work Ethic

Author:Miranda Kerr

“My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.”

Knows Self Remember Parent Simple Cooking Meals Schooled

Author:Tyler Florence

“My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.”

Different Parent Growing Up Growing Style Dad My Dad Driven Mum Different Styles Motown

Author:Ella Henderson

“My parents brought me up with this philosophy. You must do things. You mustn't watch what other people are doing. You must not listen to what other people are doing.”

People Philosophy Action Parent Watches Doing You

Author:Richard Branson

“My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familar? The communist party is the democratic Party.”

Jobs America Politics Parent Sound Party Democracy Democratic Agendas Communist Soviet Slogans Democratic Party Communist Party

Author:David Horowitz

“My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.”

Way Parent Poor Growing Up Saws Growing Succeed Backgrounds Grades Poor Background

Author:Jennifer Garner

“My parents came from an environment where everyone knew that the way to be successful was to get a great education, and that was going to be your ticket in life. If you could succeed in education then you would succeed in life, so that was sort of the driving force behind my parents' upbringing, and therefore kind of how they brought me up.”

Ifs Way Kind Force Parent Behinds Successful Environment Succeed Driving Being Successful Tickets Upbringing Great Education Driving Force

Author:Michelle Rhee

“My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.”

Different Mother Father Parent Relation Backgrounds Disapproval Different Backgrounds

Author:Julian Fellowes

“My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.”

World Years States Opportunity Parent United United States Century Wave Seeking Immigrants New World

Author:Daniel Nathans

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