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“My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.”

Reason Wanted Parent Watches Tvs Horror Bizarre Cables Great Parents

Author:Christopher Bollen

“My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me. They nearly called me Banyan, but flipped a few pages on and reached "China," thankfully. The other reason they liked it is that "china" is Cockney rhyming slang for "mate." People say "my old china," meaning "my old mate," because "china plate" rhymes with "mate.”

People Reason Stories Beautiful Names Parent Pages China Mates Plates Rhyme Dictionary Hippie Rhyming Flipped Slang Beautiful Words Cockneys

Author:China Mieville

“My parents were hippies.”

Parent Hippie

Author:Balthazar Getty

“My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.”

Parent Study Mets Enlightened Hippie

Author:Paulo Costanzo

“My parents were hoarders before hoarding was cool”

Parent Hoarding

Author:Jase Robertson

“My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.”

Wanted Parent

Author:Lloyd Alexander

“My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.”

Parent Embarrassing Supportive

Author:Francesca Annis

“My parents were Hungarian immigrants; my father was a tailor and we lived in the back of a tailor store. And that was my first inkling of what it was like to be raised in America. It had a profound effect on me - I saw different people coming in all the time with different attitudes and I liked it. And as I grew older, I found that I was able to use something inside of me to get some sympathy if I wanted it. I used to shine shoes, and I would use a waif-like look. I'd get a dime and I'd be as happy as could be.”

People Different Father Parent Attitude Shining Profound

Author:Tony Curtis

“My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.”

Parent Source Labor Immigrants Factories Cheap Labor

Author:Jack Kirby

“My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.”

Years Parent Couple Broadway

Author:Laura Benanti

“My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.”

Parent Streets

Author:Mary of Teck

“My parents were in the studio when we cut 'Let Me Try' and every time I sang it they started crying, ... I finally had to ask them to leave because I couldn't sing it while they were crying.”

Trying Asks Parent Cutting Cry Let Me Studios

Author:Hope Partlow

“My parents were incredibly inclusive.”

Parent

Author:Damian Lewis

“My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.”

Parent Military Style Strict

Author:John Leguizamo

“My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.”

Girl Names Parent Inspired Saved Bob Masculine Dylan

Author:Dylan Lauren

“My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock 'n' roll? No. I wanted a guitar, but my mother didn't really want me to have one. At some point I played a violin, but I didn't last long at that.”

Want Kind Long Bigs Wanted Lasts Mother Father Stuff Parent Rocks Band Guitar Dancer Want Me Rock N Roll Violin

Author:Mark Alan Stamaty

“My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.”

People Actors Parent Dad Involved My Dad Showbiz

Author:Tina Yothers

“My parents were kids when I was born. My mother was 16. My father was 17, and they got married in high school. And they split a few years later. When they split was when all that was happening also, and he - they were just coming into themselves. But they remained friends.”

Years Kids School Mother Father Parent Born Married Happenings High School Splits

Author:Mahershala Ali

“My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.”

Kind Enough Parent Hours Talking

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.”

Kind Stuff Parent Like Me

Author:Jaron Lanier

“My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.”

People Kind Play Parent Streets Middle Dad Basketball My Dad Christmas Grass My Sister Bike Protective Lawns Backyards Dribble

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.”

People Kind Play Remember Parent Brother Radio Christmas My Sister Bike Protective Backyards Younger Brother Transistors

Author:Stephen Elop

“My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.”

Wanted Mother Parent Religious Childhood Logic Desperation Legion Satanism Lenient

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.”

Looks Home Parent Expected Sibling Housework Stay At Home Younger Siblings

Author:Sara Paretsky

“My parents were lovely. They've always been supportive. When you love your child, you don't know what to do with someone who wants to do what no one else does successfully. If I had someone younger I loved, I'd be worried for them too if I didn't have guidance to give them.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Children Doe Parent Love You Our Children Lovely Worried Your Children Guidance Supportive Love Your Children

Author:Lana Del Rey

“My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.”

Years I Can Parent Married Good And Bad

Author:Scott Baio

“My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.”

Years Firsts School Parent Five Generations Minutes Drama Ten Married Five Years Sixty My Generation Yale

Author:Lewis Black

“My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.”

Years Whole Father Parent Married Years Ago Whole Life Passed Away Father Passed Away

Author:Paul Rudd

“My parents were marvelously educated people.”

People Parent Educated

Author:Stephen Fry

“My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.”

States Parent Born Grew Grew Up Brazil

Author:Arto Lindsay

“My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.”

Parent Factories

Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky

“My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.”

Parent Lovers Collectors Music Lover

Author:Boz Scaggs

“My parents were my first bosses - they gave me my moral compass, goals, and first recognition. My dad worked 25 years for Rolls Royce in England. He taught me the value of working someplace where you can make a difference - not chasing money but doing work that you found purposeful.”

Values Parent Goal Moral Dad My Dad Recognition Making A Difference Boss Compass Moral Compass You Can Make A Difference

Author:Adrian Gostick

“My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.”

Heart Long Hard Wanted Parent Decision Roles Break Hero Models Role Models Disappoint My Hero

Author:Dick Vitale

“My parents were my worst audience.”

Parent Audience Worst

Author:Richard Lewis

“My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.”

Parent Poor Honest Parenting

Author:Mark Twain

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.”

School Parent Effort University Aspiration Wealthy Academic Supportive

Author:Paul Nurse

“My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.”

Artist Father Parent Makeup Los Angeles New Yorkers Makeup Artist Chamberlain

Author:Michele Lee

“My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.”

Way Years America Parent Poverty Climbs Proven Worthless Poverty In America

Author:James McBride

Source: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

“My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.”

People Thinking Made Able School Mother Wish Parent Teacher Wonderful College Goes On High School Hills Affluent Diploma Extremity Appalachia Wonderful Teacher High School Diploma

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.”

Needs Years Actors Parent Class Teach Clear Taught Tables Motor

Author:John Michael Higgins

“My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models, and they would say, you should want to be like Miss Gardiner, you should want to be like Mr. Freeman, or be like your dad. Shun the people who don't value education.”

“My parents were not musical, but my mom just really wanted my brother and I to learn music as well as practice sports. It's a balance for which I'm thankful. I'm not sure I'm more balanced than anyone, but I'm happier because I can make music and I'm really thankful for that.”

Sports Parent Brother Mom Balance Musical My Mom Not Sure My Brother

Author:Olivia Merilahti

“My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that.”

Thinking Stills Parent Mom My Mom Expecting Very Happy Astronaut Pushy

Author:Berenice Bejo

“My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.”

Two Science Parent Wonder Taught Scientist Method Introducing Skepticism Scientific Method

Author:Carl Sagan

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“My parents were not theatrical at all.”

Parent Theatrical

Author:Jane Asher

“My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.”

Children Parent Democracy Generations Europe Czechoslovakia

Author:Madeleine Albright

“My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.”

Should Care Young Parent Opinion Growing Up Growing Should Have Structure Skating

Author:Anton Yelchin

“My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere.”

Parent Normal Atmosphere 1960s

Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates" after the ancient Greek, and wrote about in my first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. That book emerged in 1980, as a result of travels around the world and decades of preparation, eventually leading to 15 other books written over the years, culminating in my newest offering, The Four Purposes of Life.”

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