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“I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.”

Children Age Wanted Young Actors Parent Acting Careers Path Fields Mines Understood Indian Supportive Young Age

Author:Archie Panjabi

“For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Long Kids Age Fighting Felt Parent Prove Long Time Adults Treated Peers Cocky Savvy

Author:Ezra Miller

“My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.”

Two Age Wanted Moving Parent Born Baby Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Jew Israel Israeli Homeland Baghdad

Author:Elliott Yamin

“My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.”

World Feels Years Different Age Parent Boys Taxes Six Adults Mature Earning Pupils Earning Money

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.”

People Children Care Age America Parent Taken Grew Grew Up Towns Old Age Proximity

Author:Robert Benton

“When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."”

Firsts Age Parent Dear Driven Paradise Transition Adam Adam And Eve

Book:Labels & Libels

Source: Labels & Libels

“We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family.”

Years Two Kids Age Games Sports Parent Talking Boys Stupid Youth Adventure Daughter Eight Driving My Daughter Hockey Fourteen Trophies Idiotic Good Relationship Youth Sports Close Family

Author:Jeff Daniels

“Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.”

Years Age Parent Example Youth Periods Adolescence Rapids Rapid Change

Author:Al Bernstein

“We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and walks of life wrote to us, including actresses, stand-up comics, parents and students. What's clear after reading the entries is the impact that call-ins have had on the political conversation on the network.”

Age Wanted Political Reading Parent Walks Watches Clear Students Conversation Impact Including Actresses Participation Viewers Entry Walks Of Life

Author:Brian Lamb

“Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.”

Thinking Kids Age Certain Parent Teacher Player Regret Musician Decided Baseball I Regret Baseball Player Music Teacher

Author:Charlie Day

“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

“Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.”

“I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.”

I Can Might Age House Process Parent Forever Childhood Figures Sells Bedroom Convincing Just Live

Author:Pete Wentz

“If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.”

Ifs Looks Book Age Reading Asks Parent Reader Treasure Tales Dictionary

Author:Gloria Estefan

“I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.”

Age Remember Young Reading Parent Ability Levels Taught Speed Impressed Comprehension Creepy

Author:J. J. Abrams

“Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.”

Wells Character Age Speak Parent Chance Five Thousand Twenties Clean Photograph Average Thirty Justified Initials Twenty Five Birthright Nicknames Composites Clean Living

Book:Average Jones

Source: Average Jones

“Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.”

Children Kids Age Parent Talking Horrible Helpful

Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.”

“You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.”

Knows Years Said I Can Home Age Remember Mother Left Parent Kitchen Restaurants Chef Apprenticeship Home Home

Author:Jacques Pepin

“I was put into this business by my parents as soon as I could walk. I was groomed by them for this business. I didn't wake up at the early ages of 5 or 6 and say I want to be a star.”

Want Age Stars Parent Walks Wake Up

Author:Irene Cara

“I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.”

Trying Age Wanted School Young Names Parent Comedy Fit Late Accents Young Age Trying To Fit In

Author:Nasim Pedrad

“What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.”

Doe Stills Age Parent Produce Wasting Time Vicious Posterity Progeny Not Wasting Time

Author:Horace

“You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.”

Age Certain Parent Judging Dad Your Dad

Author:Ellie Goulding

“Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.”

Self Age Parent Creatures Independent Companion Charming Employed Selection Troublesome Untamed

Author:Rose Macaulay

“When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.”

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Author:Nick Vujicic

“I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.”

Children Age Young Force Parent Realizing Loses Natural Mercy Aging Heredity Parent Child

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.”

Children Age Parent Middle Youth Habit Caution Persistent Vitality Middle Ages Compensation Small Child Timidity Maternity Belated

Author:Vera Brittain

“we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.”

Thinking Age Found Sex Grows Parent Growing Up Coming Of Age Cabbage

Book:The Burning Point

Source: The Burning Point

“My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment.”

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“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

“When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.”

Needs Children Age Young Parent Growing Up Growing Young Age Foster Children

Author:Michelle Monaghan

“I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don't sing. It was driving me crazy. 'We're doing 'Macbeth.'' 'Yes!' 'The musical!' And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing.”

Play Age Able School Courses Parent Crazy England Musical Driving Chorus Parents Love Preps Drive Me Crazy

Author:Charlie Cox

“You should have access to ideas and information regardless of your age. If anyone is going to limit or guide a young person, it should be the parent or guardian and only the parent or guardian.”

Ifs Should Persons Ideas Age Young Parent Information Limits Should Have Guides Access Guardian

Author:Judith Krug

“It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.”

People Want Important Seems Kids Age Today Parent Decision Failing Position Refuse Great Things Protected Aspire Important Decisions

Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

“There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.”

Ifs Thinking Children Stills Matter Age Certain Dies Parent No Matter What Realising

Author:Rupert Graves

“Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.”

Running Age Wanted School Parent Education Heard Advice College Prison Manage Executives Retirement Orphan Discussing Corrections Asylums Retirement Age Alumni

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.”

Knows Firsts Bigs Age Suffering Parent Loss Lessons Albums Divorce Coming Of Age Life Lesson First Love Amazing Things Really Amazing Parents Divorce

Author:Brandi Carlile

“Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.”

Believe Long Age Young Parent Can Do Existence Long Time Losing Young Age Long Time Ago

Author:Jon Hamm

“For me, there were a few things in the Spider-Man comics that I thought were really interesting. There's this story about Peter's parents and where he came from, and I thought that it was really interesting to explore the emotional consequence of someone whose parents had left them, at a very young age.”

Men Stories Age Young Left Parent Interesting Emotional Consequence Peter Spiders Young Age Really Interesting Spider Man

Author:Marc Webb

“The children of childish parents age quickly.”

Children Age Parent Aging

Author:Mason Cooley

“To be told that our child's behavior is "normal" offers little solace when our feelings are badly hurt, or when we worry that hisactions are harmful at the moment or may be injurious to his future. It does not help me as a parent nor lessen my worries when my child drives carelessly, even dangerously, if I am told that this is "normal" behavior for children of his age. I'd much prefer him to deviate from the norm and be a cautious driver!”

Ifs May Children Littles Doe Moments Helping Feelings Age Parent Hurt Worry Offers Behavior Normal Our Children My Children Help Me Drivers Norm Cautious Solace Deviate

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“Taking the child's point of view demands good will, time, and effort on the part of parents. The child is the clear beneficiary. Parents who make the effort to understand their children's point of view are likely to treat children fairly and in an age-appropriate manner.”

Children Age Parent Views Effort Clear Demand Treats Point Of View Appropriate Good Will Beneficiaries

Book:Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance

Source: Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance

“Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women's movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums--what should they be? how should they act?--that became our uncertainties.”

Way Should Age Mother Parent Women Movement Married Uncertainty Coming Of Age Trails Divorced Inception Conundrums Homemaker Working Parents

Author:Anne Roiphe

“Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently. Sometimes these expectations run counter what is known about children's growth. They stem from remembering oneself, but usually at a slightly older age.”

Should Children Sometimes Running Age Remember Parent Growth Acting Known Conflict Expectations Oneself Stem Children And Parents Hub

Book:The Six Stages of Parenthood

Source: The Six Stages of Parenthood

“Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.”

Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project

“I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling like in high school, they were actually my best friends.”

Thinking Should Has Beens Age School Young Parent Mom High School Should Have My Mom My Best Friend Should Have Been

Author:Mandy Moore

“They really just taught me at an early age the values of hard work. Both my parents are two of the hardest working people that I know, so that was a big foundation for me and something I really cherish and it really helped me to grow up in that kind of household.”

People Knows Kind Two Hard Bigs Age Values Grows Parent Growing Up Taught Hard Work Foundation Hardest Cherish Household Value Of Hard Work

Author:Blake Griffin

“Life with a daughter of nine through twelve is a special experience for parents, particularly mothers. In a daughter's looks, actions, attitudes, passions, loves, and hates, in her fears and her foibles, a mother will see herself at the same age. You are far enough away to have some perspective on what your daughter is going through. Still, you are close enough, if reminded, to feel it all again.”

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.”

Men May Age Parent Sides Tree Pride Daughter Ruins Thee Old Man Fitting Oaks

Book:Woodstock, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.24

Source: Woodstock, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.24

“Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.”

Age Parent Weak Ancestry Grandson Pedigree Infringement

Author:Josh Billings

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