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“My parents divorced when I was one year old so I don't really remember any of the details, but luckily my mom does so she's been really helpful.”

Years Doe Remember Parent Mom Details My Mom Helpful Divorced

Author:Chelsea Peretti

“My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.”

Two Young Parent Mom Dad My Mom Household Divorced Contentious

Author:Matt Damon

“My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.”

Parent Growing Up Growing Daddy Divorced

Author:Pink

“My parents do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed.”

Parent Behinds Scene Unnoticed Behind The Scenes

Author:Cam Newton

“My parents don't care what Americans think of us; we just care what the other Indian people in our community think of us.”

People Thinking Care Parent Community Don't Care Indian Our Community

Author:Himanshu Suri

“My parents don't really watch movies at all.”

Parent Watches Watch Movie

Author:Teresa Palmer

“My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect, they are no real part of it.”

Thinking Real Parent Europe Continents Somewhere Else

Author:John Gimlette

“My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.”

Facts Fear Parent Changing My Life

Author:Jason Mraz

“My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.”

Years Children Inspiration Mother Parent President Mom Vote Election Happy Mothers Day Only Child

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.”

Wanted Parent

Author:Charles Kuralt

“My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.”

Ifs Thinking Parent

Author:Holly Near

“My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.”

Ifs Wanted Parent Theory Instruments Commit Grades

Author:Laura Mvula

“My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.”

Years Running Three Parent Class Three Years Gymnastics Playgrounds Three Year Olds

Author:Dominique Moceanu

“My parents explained: "You can either have a big Christmas and birthday present or we'll go abroad." We'd say: "Let's go abroad!" We had a lovely childhood.”

Bigs Parent Childhood Lovely

Author:Nicki Chapman

“My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.”

Thinking Made Would Be Asks Felt Parent Acting Painting Secure Ask Me Insecure

Author:John Hurt

“My parents found me very difficult to educate.”

Found Parent Difficult Educate

Author:Mika Brzezinski

“My parents found tradition and ritual very important, because they were both brought up that way and found comfort in it. They thought it was important for children to be kept on a schedule. You went home for the holidays, you went to mass on Sunday - no ifs, ands, or buts. That was ingrained in me from a very young age, and I think that's informed who I am in so many aspects of my life. I crave stability and a schedule and the security that comes along with it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Children Important Home Age Young Found Parent Security Comfort Mass Aspect Tradition Who I Am Holiday Sunday Ritual Stability Schedules Crave Young Age Home For The Holidays

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn`t put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.”

Way Found Parent Fronts Television Toys

Author:Nastassja Kinski

“My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.”

Wells Age Young Parent Achieve Huge Mark Pressure Raised University Keep Going My Sister Emphasis Young Age Attorney

Author:David Schwimmer

“My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So thats how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.”

Parent My Own One Thing Built Hobbies Telescopes Astronomers

Author:Dimitar Sasselov

“My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.”

Today Suffering Parent Grateful Distress Strict Upbringing I Am Grateful

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.”

Faces Belief Parent Possibility Offers Limitation Pregnancy Stability

Author:Dionne Warwick

“My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she was never afraid that Judy is reading.”

Mean Mother Reading Parent Good Things

Author:Judy Blume

“My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in gods, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again.”

People Ifs May Facts Asks Parent Growing Up Growing Drink Normal Assuming Dear Arguing Cups Bother Chalice Irreligion

Author:Salman Rushdie

“My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.”

Littles House Parent Generations Sacrifice Prepared Gave Up Prairie Little House On The Prairie

Author:Tony Parsons

“My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.”

Kids Names Parent Brother Letters Silent Our Family My Brother My Sister Carried Away

Author:Paula Poundstone

“My parents got divorced and military school gave me a structure. A lot of kids my age were children of divorced parents. They didn't know what to do with the kids.”

Knows Children Kids Age School Parent Military Structure Divorced Military School Divorced Parents

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“My parents got divorced when I was about ten years old, but I saw my mom go work two and three jobs to make sure we didn't miss a beat.”

Years Two Jobs Three Parent Saws Missing Mom Ten Beats My Mom Divorced

Author:LeToya Luckett

“My parents got divorced. Early and ugly. My mum was nuts so I lived with my dad. We used to play a father/son games. Pin the blame on me, rock, paper, get me another beer, casino night.”

Play Used Night Father Games Parent Rocks Son Dad Paper Blame My Dad Ugly Beer Nuts Mum Divorced Pins Father Son Casinos

Author:Christopher Titus

“My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.”

Kids Age Certain Social Felt Parent Late Married Pregnant Being Married Homeowners

Author:Anna Kendrick

“My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.”

Parent Church Lessons Piano My Sister Piano Lesson

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.”

Thinking Would Be Parent Space Race Grew Moon Grew Up Bases Shoes Rockets Living On Space Race

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed that anything was possible with hard work, and they particularly stressed the importance of education. They instilled that same belief in my sister and me.”

Littles Hard Belief Parent Poor Teacher College Hard Work Grew Grew Up Importance My Sister Stressed Importance Of Education Poor Family

Author:Samuel Alito

“My parents grew up in the Depression. Despite the success that they both had in their lives, there's a certain mentality that tells you to finish all the food that's on your plate and not wasting anything and appreciating what's on the table.”

Parent Appreciate Mentality

Author:Richard Schiff

“My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.”

Way Parent Class Grew Grew Up Fortune Working Class Better Me

Author:Graham Norton

“My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don’t see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to one another. Their relationship wasn’t something to be constantly examined or picked apart.”

Today Certain Parent Committed Good Times Resolve

Author:Steve Carell

“My parents had a difficult divorce.”

Parent Difficult Divorce

Author:Christian Camargo

“My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.”

Parent Fashion Industry Factories Linked Fashion Industry Textiles

Author:Francisco Costa

“My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.”

Made Parent Harder Made It Good Relationship Great Marriage

Author:Candace Bushnell

“My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.”

Stuff Parent Wonder Records Huge Vinyl Motown Steely Dan

Author:Jonny Lang

“My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music.”

Mother Father Parent Records Piano Being Played

Author:Lauryn Hill

“My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.”

Children Parent Normal Russia Raising Children Normal Life

Author:Maria Sharapova

“My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.”

Parent Musician Sunday Gestures Cradle Pubs Imitating

Author:Toots Thielemans

“My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a shoebox. One of the regulars in 'the cafe said to my father: "I think you should get your son an accordion-that's what he's trying to do, with that shoebox." So they got me a little cardboard diatonic accordion-I still have it. I started to play the National Anthem, and things like that. It seems I was musically gifted-but my parents just never pushed in that direction.”

Thinking Should Trying Littles Said Stills Play Seems Father Parent Player Son Sunday Gifted Sidewalk Anthem Your Son Cafes Squeezing Accordions National Anthem

Author:Toots Thielemans

“My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.”

Mother Father Parent Wonderful Dependent Wonderful Marriage

Author:Erika Slezak

“My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die.”

Dies Parent Needed Decided Careful Sam Roth

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

Source: Linger

“My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.”

Hard Parent Struggle Virtue One Thing Economic Hard Work Pregnancy

Author:Sargent Shriver

“My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.”

People Way Writing Different States Mother Father Parent United Wonder United States Growing Up Growing One Way Arranged Marriage

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.”

Parent Imagine Mines Opposites

Author:Jane Pauley

“My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently, having a lot of fun and just doing what they wanted to do. I think that idea of independence as an artist was something I was always used to. And then I entered the industry from a very commercial perspective, and things were very different then from what I grew up with.”

Thinking Ideas Different Wanted Used Artist Fun Parent Company Perspective Grew Industry Grew Up Theater Independent Independence Raised Sweden

Author:Robyn

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