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“My parents said I'd always been attracted to music from an early age. The classic story is I started singing before I talked. My Mom would play me tapes, and I'd be able to sing them back perfectly. She said my pitch was dead on, but I'd fill in nonsense syllables for all the rest of it. The words would be all garbled, because I didn't know how to talk yet.”

Knows Said Play Stories Would Be Age Able Parent Know How Mom Singing My Mom Classic Nonsense Tape Syllables

Author:Vienna Teng

“My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.”

Said Parent Optimistic Things To Do Pessimistic Marrying

Author:Olivia Wilde

“My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.”

Said Fighting Names Felt Parent Hurt Break Stones Sticks Bones Hurt Me Exhilaration Sticks And Stones

Author:Michael Franti

“My parents said that I was nine months old and would throw myself out of the crib onto the floor continually. As soon as they left the room after putting me back in they'd hear a big bump and I'd be on the floor again.”

Said Bigs Left Parent Rooms Months Nine Bumps Nine Months

Author:Johnny Knoxville

“My parents said they had to make a lot of sacrifices to pay for my education... because they were both druids.”

Said Humor Funny Parent Pay Sacrifice Druids

Author:Milton Jones

“My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.”

Said Wanted Actors Parent Directors Someday

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“My parents say it all began with my role of Percy the Polar Bear back in nursery school! I began dance classes at the age of five (you would never guess though) and then I went on to join my local theatre group, Glantawe Players, at the age of eight and then Swansea Amateur Dramatics Society. I then joined the National Youth Music Theatre, so I really can't remember a time when I wasn't interested in Musical Theatre!”

Age School Remember Parent Class Roles Five Player Groups Youth Bears Musical Eight Theatre Locals Nursery Dance Class Polar Bears Musical Theatre Nursery School

Author:Francesca Jackson

“My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.”

Way Littles Different Kids Parent Little Kid

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“My parents say that I was singing before I could talk. I personally remember specific moments at three or four when music was playing literally all over the house.”

Moments Remember Three House Parent Four Singing

Author:Tori Kelly

“My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.”

Ideas Parent Tree Land Rivers Chocolate Fascinated Factories Candy Lollipop

Author:Dylan Lauren

“My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.”

Memories Family Parents

Author:Gabrielle Hamilton

Source: Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

“My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.”

Parent Class Chosen Enjoyed Performers Dance Class

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people who were from other parts of the world. ... I remember feeling that I would never have anything to contribute on St. Patrick's Day. I couldn't tell the stories that they might have been telling about their forebears and I felt left out.”

People World Has Beens Stories Feelings Might School Remember Left Grows Felt Parent Chance Growing Up Towns Might Have Been Integrated Left Out St Patrick St Patrick's Day

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.”

School Parent France Montreal

Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.”

Parent Grew Mom Grew Up My Mom Eight

Author:Julian Casablancas

“My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.”

Mother Parent Four Passionate Divorce

Author:Sophie Ellis Bextor

“My parents separated when I was younger”

Parent

Author:Tina Turner

“My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.”

Love Giving Believe America Names Nations Parent Possibility Give Me Blessed Barack Barriers Patriotic Abiding Improbable Abiding Faith

Author:Barack Obama

“My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.”

Parent Example Balance Family Life

Author:Ben Marcus

“My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.”

Years Made Two Parent Lessons Guitar Evening Two Years Depressing Wednesday Classical Guitar Most Depressing

Author:Andrew Garfield

“My parents spent countless hours teaching me to read and write. My mother was an English teacher who patiently taught me where to put my periods and commas, and my father, who loves books more than anyone I know, taught me from an early age that books are precious and should be handled gently , "like butterflies.”

Books Parents Teaching Children

Author:Jessi Klein

Source: You'll Grow Out of It

“My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.”

Mother Father Parent Realizing Splits Gentleness

Author:Justin Townes Earle

“My parents split up when I was five, and that changed my life as well. I wasn't used to seeing them away from each other. I had to get used to seeing my dad without my mom. Those things affected the music that I make.”

Wells Used Parent Five Seeing Changed Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Affected Splits Changed My Life Away From Each Other

Author:Joey Badass

“My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.”

Parent Minutes Splits Things Change Youngsters One Minute Happy Family

Author:Vinnie Jones

“My parents spoke of piety, of love, and of humility. I have really tried hard. But as long as there was a God in my world, I couldn't even get close to my goals. My humility was not humble enough. My love remained nonetheless far less than the love of Christ or of the saints or even my own mother's love. And my piety was forever poisoned by grave doubts. Now that God is gone, I feel that all this is mine; piety toward life, humility before my meaningless fate, and love for the other children who are afraid, who are ill, who are cruel.”

Love God Humility Humanism Piety Secular Humanism Faith Doubt

Author:Ingmar Bergman

Source: Images: my life in film

“My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.”

Years Home Parent President Rooms Company Dollars Dues Plus President Obama Living Room

Author:Nikki Haley

“My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.”

Littles Art Made Parent Saws Crazy College Focused Theatre Graduates Traveled Budgeting

Author:Jennifer Garner

“My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite.”

Years Together Parent Spite Forty

Author:Woody Allen

“My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.”

Years Stills Parent Treats Christmas Thirteen Thirteen Year Olds

Author:Mike Shinoda

“My parents subscribed to both Time and Newsweek and in 1978, I remember the covers of both that December were of the bodies in the jungle. The fact that many of the people who drank the cyanide - as well as Jim Jones himself - were originally from Indiana, that stayed with me. I wanted to know why they did such a baffling, horrendous thing, why they would kill their children.”

People Children Remember Parent Jungle Drank December

Author:Julia Scheeres

“My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.”

Thinking Found Parent Difficult Perfect Ideals Pressure Nuclear Nuclear Families

Author:Tim Burton

“My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.”

Mean Doe Has Beens Important Hard Parent Knowing Share Hard Work Tomorrow Survived Greedy Dna Great Depression Extravagance

Author:David Suzuki

“My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.”

People Ifs Long Important Winning Parent Chance Taught Long Time Winner Long Time Ago

Author:Pat Summitt

“My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long run, it will make some sort of change somewhere.”

Trying Wells Long Hard Running Kids Parent Taught One Day Long Runs

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.”

People Way Children Art Facts Parent Careers Taught Raises Passionate Family Life

Author:Olivia Williams

“My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.”

People Care Life Is Parent Compassion Kindness Risk Honesty Danger Taught Adventure Truth Honesty Danger In Life

Author:Brian Blessed

“My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.”

World Wanted Parent Taught Parenting

Author:Joan Jett

“My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Why make life miserable for someone when you could be using your energy for good? We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.”

People Love Hate Race Judgment Lgbt Bigotry

Author:Taylor Swift

“My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.”

Parent Taught Color Judging Skins

Author:Taylor Swift

“My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Why make life miserable for someone when you can use your energy for good? We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.”

People Needs Use Eye Hate Energy Parent Opinion Share Taught Color Judging Waste Skins Miserable Comment Hateful Respectful Be Respectful

Author:Taylor Swift

“My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.”

Culture Parent Taught My Family

Author:Alice Walker

“My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.”

People Men Made Parent Taught Disease Aids Undesirable

Author:Kanye West

“My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted and I have always believed it to be true. Add a clear idea of what inspires you, dedicate your energies to its pursuit and there is no knowing what you can achieve, particularly if others are inspired by your dream and offer their help.”

Ifs Ideas Helping Dream Wanted Energy Parent Knowing Clear Achieve Inspire Taught Offers Add Inspired Pursuit Being True Your Dreams Parenthood Always Believe

Author:Pete Goss

“My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.”

World Mind Parent Sin Race Talent Taught Prejudice Great Minds Robbing Racial Prejudice Depriving Anti Racist

Author:Edward Brooke

“My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.”

World Parent Responsibility Taught Approach Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.”

Giving Believe Able Parent Creative Taught Response

Author:Atom Egoyan

“My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.”

Giving Believe Parent Taught Giving Up Not Giving Up Never Giving Up Always Believe My Future Never Give Up On Something

Author:Susana Martinez

“My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.”

Life Is Parent Family Taught Grew Type Grew Up

Author:George Thorogood

“My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.”

Men Parent My Own Pay Taught Married Paid Bills Rely

Author:Bette Midler

“My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.”

Giving Persons Parent Differences Taught Importance Making A Difference My Sister Giving Back

Author:Beyonce Knowles

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