“Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!” IfsTryingStillsFactsFeelingsUsedParentMomProudBandMy MomOne Direction Author:Zayn Malik
“I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.” UsedParentViewsUsed To BeDysfunctional Family Author:Tamora Pierce
“I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.” HelpingUsedParentClassFitLuckyTrainingUsed To BeHelp MeGymHikingCardioBodybuilderCardiovascular Exercise Author:Janel Parrish
“I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.” PeopleWritingJobsMovingUsedSongParentRoomsNiceHeardAmountLet MeTinyUsed To BeFractionsReally Nice Author:Regina Spektor
“Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.” ChildrenBookUsedLostParentInterestAnimalClassGenerationsMiddleLateAvailableVideoMiddle ClassFavouriteEightyAdorableFavourite Book Author:Peter York
“I used to scream at everybody at the beginning of my career. I'd get really emotional. I'd project all my issues about my parents and safety onto the executives, so every conversation where they gave a note was life or death and you don't love me.” UsedParentCareersIssuesEmotionalConversationProjectsSafetyNotesExecutivesScreamGet RealLife Or DeathYou Don't Love Me Author:Judd Apatow
“I used read about Dr. King a lot as a kid. Independently, from being assigned it or being told by my parents or anything, I was just really excited about him. So I just started reading about him very young and was inspired by his legacy and looked to him as a role model.” KidsYoungUsedReadingParentRolesKingsModelsInspiredExcitedLegacyRole ModelsDrs Author:John Legend
“Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.” RememberUsedParentWatchesRocksTvsBecomingRock N RollSixtyRemember WhenSweatersCashmere Author:Neil Young
“I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.” ThinkingWritingStoriesUsedParentWorryShy Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didnt spend that much time with him. I used to put head phones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and kind of had a weird bonding in a way.” WayTryingWellsUsedFoundParentDadMy DadDivorcedBondingHeadphones Author:Teddy Thompson
“I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.” ThinkingLittlesSelfRememberFacesUsedParentHalfFrontsWalkingCrowdsApplauseFoldingWalking Out Author:Dallas Roberts
“I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being cheered on by the Swedish fans, and with his game style being like mine, I drew comparisons with him.” UsedGamesParentWatchesFansStyleMinesComparisonCashAustralianSwedish Author:Lleyton Hewitt
“By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and starving for the good parent, so it's like I'm bringing my own persona issues into that. I am the parent that I always wanted to have; that's how I look at my role.” WorldNeedsLooksWantedUsedParentMy OwnRolesIssuesStarvingPersonaPersonal ExperiencesDefaultGood Parent Author:Bob Harper
“I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people” PeopleIfsYearsLittlesDifferentDonePlayShowsRememberUsedNightParentClassGroupsRocksGoes OnLowsMadSingersEducatedKneesIf I CouldSaturdaySaturday NightDisapproving Author:Mick Jagger
“The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music.” LittlesKidsUsedParentEvolveDragRenaissance Author:Jonathan Cain
“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.” WellsUsedParentFiveSeeingChangedMomDadMy DadMy MomAffectedSplitsChanged My LifeAway From Each Other Author:Joey Badass
“It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.” KnowsMenWantFirstsPersonsLongDoeSaidUsedAsksParentNew YorkAskingUsed To BeGrandparentBostonRefinedPhiladelphia Author:Cleveland Amory
“In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has hadless authority than the last. . . . Masculinity ceased to be defined in terms of domestic involvement, skills at fathering and husbanding, but began to be defined in terms of making money. Men had to leave home to work. They stopped doing all the things they used to do.” MenYearsTwoHomeLastsAmericaPastUsedFatherParentTermGenerationsSkillsAuthorityHundredDefinedPrimariesMaking MoneyMasculinityInvolvementOver The PastFathering Author:Frank Pittman
“Reprehension is a kind of middle thing betwixt admonition and correction: it is sharpe admonition, but a milde correction. It is rather to be used because it may be a meanes to prevent strokes and blowes, especially in ingenuous and good natured children. [Blows are] the last remedy which a parent can use: a remedy which may doe good when nothing else can.” KindMayChildrenDoeUseLastsUsedParentMiddleDisciplineBlowRemedyStrokesCorrectionsGood NatureAdmonition Author:William Gouge
“I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was raised Catholic, and I admired how he used his faith.” WorldUsedParentCatholicRaisedExesFanaticsClergy Author:John Fugelsang
“My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.” KnowsChildrenUsedFatherParentBoysShouldersFamily LoveGood Boy Author:Jack Kirby
“I used humor to avoid being picked on as a kid. Or I would try and make my parents laugh, so I wouldn't get in trouble. But as a kid, I would watch Flip Wilson and I would memorize his whole routine, listen to Bill Cosby's records constantly, Steve Martin, Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball. I just drank that stuff up and loved it.” TryingWholeKidsUsedStuffParentWatchesLaughingRecordsTroubleBallsBillsRoutineDrankFlipWilsonCarols Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey
“When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "Emo, don't go near the cellar door!" One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun.” HumorKidsFunnyUsedParentSunSawsNiceWonderfulDoorsTreeStrangeFlowerOne DayGrassWonderful ThingsCellarsEmo Author:Emo Philips
“I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.” MeanPlayUsedCertainSongParentRecordsEventsHugeSingingMy FamilyRaisedPopsIntroductionPop MusicQuiz Author:Eric Hutchinson
“My parents would tell us to go outside and play or to do creative stuff, but television was very limited. So we used our own creativity to entertain ourselves. We were out in the woods a lot making huts and playing horses.” PlayUsedStuffParentCreativityCreativeTelevisionHorseWoodsHuts Author:Jan Brett
“I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.” PeopleIfsRunningUsedAsksParentStreetsNew YorkFakeIf I CouldBusWeekendSlipsRunning AwayPermissionMidnightBaltimoreSororityGreyhoundsGreyhound Bus Author:John Waters
“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.” ThinkingIdeasDifferentWantedUsedArtistFunParentCompanyPerspectiveGrewIndustryGrew UpTheaterIndependentIndependenceRaisedSweden Author:Robyn