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“I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.”

Trying Years America Parent Half Study Groups Six Excellent Permission Boston Scholarship Yale Consulting Half A Year

Author:Indra Nooyi

“My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.”

Years Bigs Mother Father House Parent Born Cooks County Big Houses Chauffeurs Norfolk

Author:Paul Nurse

“My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.”

Years Two Moving Left Parent Four Growing College Products Horror Areas Boxes Founders Dylan Juniors Non Stop Bay Area Junior Year

Author:Aaron Levie

“I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.”

Years Firsts Three Parent Four Fit Six Instruments Seven Guitar Eight Four Years Playing Guitar

Author:Chord Overstreet

“I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.”

Years Moments Parent Five Mom My Mom Hips Five Years

Author:Kay Panabaker

“My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.”

Years Has Beens Together Parent Stubborn Quitter

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.”

Years Play Wanted Remember Parent

Author:Tammin Sursok

“I came to this country when I was twelve years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.”

Want Giving Years Country Wanted Opportunity Parent President Chance Succeed Give Me President Obama New Opportunity

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.”

Years School Names Parent Teacher High School Sick Juniors Nicknames Teddy Franco Junior Year Junior Year Of High School

Author:James Franco

“My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.”

Years Mean Government Parent Known Gone Army Department Great Depression Frugal

Author:Veronica Webb

“Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.”

Years Children Sometimes Bits Parent Promise Disappointment Step Children

Book:A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

Source: A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

“In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.”

Years Littles Two Kids Parent Sound Dog Average Income Household Fence New Orleans Working Parents

Author:Anthony Mackie

“The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!”

Years Problem Bigs Kids Night Parent Morning Growing Up Growing Cooking Cafes Days Of The Year Menagerie

Author:Anthony Minghella

“I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.”

Knows Years Reason Feelings Wanted School Remember Faces Mother Father Parent Security My Friends Classic Ashamed Typical

Author:Kurt Cobain

“I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.”

Years Children Christian Night Parent Worship Devil Glad One Night

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.”

People Thinking Knows Years Happens Kids Mother Father Parent Understanding Rights Separation Whatever Happens

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.”

Years War Hard Parent Born

Author:Annie Lennox

“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

“When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.”

Writing Years Kind Parent Five Magic Casts Five Years Chests Spells Five Year Olds

Author:Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“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

“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.”

Thinking Years Made Hard School Law Choices Three Parent Decision Half Careers Conscious Decided University Occupation Harsh Half A Year School Days Careers Choices

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.”

Thinking Way Years Running Asks Parent Sweet Lips Tickets Sync Latex

Author:Lady Gaga

“As a kid I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays and I would walk home at night. For several years I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.”

Way Years Children Home Kids Night Parent Walks Summer Adults Moved Library Finished Locals My Way Holiday

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I thought to myself how lucky I was that my parents' and grandparents' generation had the vision and the determination to save it for us. Now it is our turn to make our own gift outright to those who will come after us, 15 years, 40 years, 100 years from now. I want to be as faithful to my grandchildren's generation as Old Faithful has been to ours. What better way can we add a new dimension to our third century of freedom?”

“The worst part is that if you become part of a major - all these independent labels become farm teams for your corporate parent. Basically, you do all the work for years, blowing up an artist - you discover them, blow them up, you build their fan base. And then that artist is like, "Okay, now I'm here. Now I want more. I want to be bigger." And you're either going to be able to accommodate them, you're going to be able to figure out how to take that step with them, or you're going to lose them.”

Ifs Want Years Able Artist Parent Loses Steps Team Fans Worst Figures Majors Okay Bigger Independent Blow Labels Corporate Farms Accommodate Blowing Up

Author:El-P

“When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work out, I'd put my nose to the grindstone and try to find a job somehow. I went to UCB, and it clicked with me.”

Ifs Trying Years Firsts Two Jobs Parent Comedy College Work Out Pursue Noses Grindstone

Author:Ben Schwartz

“It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.”

Knows Years Different Film House Parent Black Shots Shooting Roof Editing Jackets Leather Leather Jackets

Author:John Waters

“I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting’. And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.”

People Knows Years Might Three Courses Father Parent Term Wife Mets Function Difficulty West My Wife Indian Officials Three Years Bombay

Author:Glenn Turner

“Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.”

Knows Years Lasts Parent Pieces Losing Window Glasses Driving Plates Shattered Splinters Losing A Parent

Book:Saul Bellow: Letters

Source: Saul Bellow: Letters

“My dad was a lovely guy. I had great parents. But he was a conservative shopkeeper, and he said, "Look, I don't know how to help you as an actor, but if you want to be an actor, give it a go for a year. Get a job. And if you don't get a job, then we're going to reevaluate and you're going to go back to school." And I thought that was a fair thing.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Years Looks Said Helping School Jobs Guy Actors Parent Know How Dad Fairs My Dad Conservative Lovely Great Parents Shopkeepers

Author:John Kapelos

“I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.”

Years Parent Taught Great Things Great Parents Formative Years

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.”

Way Years Children Littles Kids Mother Father Felt Parent Black Term White Responsibility Audience Saws Color Tvs Smarter Little Kid Sitcom Manipulative Caregivers

Author:Bill Cosby

“The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.”

Years Children Past Parent Middle Caught Children And Parents

Book:The Middle Ground

Source: The Middle Ground

“As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.”

World Way Years Kind Children Helping Use Reality Parent Goal Can Do Deals Knowing Shapes Concerned Our Children Alternatives Mask Crucial Suggestions Urgent Using Words

Author:Betty Edwards

“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.”

“I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would only worsen as I grew up. The years would add complications and steer me into more and more impenetrable tangles of rights and wrongs, desirables and undesirables. I had already seen enough to know that.”

Source: The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

“There's been nothing proven that violence in video games has an impact. As a parent though, and I'm a parent for a 20-year-old, for a 16-year-old and for a 10-year-old, and so, you know, I make choices everyday for my kids as to what games I think is appropriate for them to play. And, you know, in the end it's up to the parents, it's up to the gamers themselves working with their parents, if they're under 21, to make the smartest choice for the games they play.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Years Ends Play Kids Choices Games Parent Violence Impact Everyday Video Appropriate Proven Gamer

Author:Reggie Fils-Aime

“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

“Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.”

Years Children Parent Teacher Emotional Messages Emotional Intelligence

Author:Daniel Goleman

“And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here. We went from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I had was when we moved into our first apartment, no bed, no furniture and we just sat in the living room and just hugged each other. We thought we made it.”

“My parents are amazing, but when I was like, “Well, I’m going to be an actress,” and they’re all doctors, that wasn’t the best and easiest thing to do, you know. So I’m sure that I probably went through a year period when I wasn’t telling them exactly what I was doing. But I think that’s going to evolve.”

Years Wells Parent Periods Doctors Actresses Evolve Things To Do

Author:Reshma Shetty

“Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Years Mind Parent Responsibility Teacher Honestly Educator Being A Parent Molding

Author:Eva Amurri

“God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year; And O! preserve my father too, And may I pay him reverence due; And may I my best thoughts employ To be my parents' hope and joy; And O! preserve my brothers both From evil doings, and from sloth, And may we always love each other, Our friends, our father, and our mother, And still, O Lord, to me impart An innocent and grateful heart, That after my last sleep I may Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge

“You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.”

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Book:Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962

Source: Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962

“I grew up in a very small house with five brothers and sisters and my parents, all with one little bathroom. And from as early as I can remember, seven, eight years old, I was listening to music to get a way from it all. Then the discovery of all this amazing stuff that became more than just getting away from it, it became a part of my DNA.”

Way Years Littles I Can Remember House Stuff Parent Five Brother Listening Grew Grew Up Discovery Seven Eight Get Away Brothers And Sisters Dna Bathroom Listening To Music

Author:John Varvatos

“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.”

Way Giving Years Age Felt Parent Born Cry Arms Giving Up Decided Asking Suicide Legs Graves Commit Worried My Future Arms And Legs Asking Why Born This Way Loving Parents

Author:Nick Vujicic

“Our sports [softball] is a game of failure already so my dad always says to parents who he is a pitching coach and he's been my pitching coach since I was 11 years old is if they can be the best kid on the team, let them experience that and then obviously the challenge has to come later on but you don't get that opportunity very often and confidence is such a huge part of this game and in life in general.”

Ifs Years Kids Opportunity Games Sports Parent Challenges Team Huge Dad My Dad Coaches Being The Best Pitching Softball

Author:Jennie Finch

“What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.”

Thinking Knows Years Mean Together Mother Father Sex Parent Enjoy Saws Listening Daughter Notes Radio Afternoon Hints Upstairs High Notes

Author:Joy Behar

“Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have children if they have any intention of leaving their side in their early years. . . . Children don't need parents' full-time attendance or attention at any stage of their development. Many people will help take care of their needs, depending on who their parents are and how they chose to fulfill their roles.”

People Ifs Needs Should Years Children Helping Care Today Mother Parent Sides Attention Roles Stage Development Intention Males Leaving Take Care Experts Attendance

Author:Stella Chess

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