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I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.
Lady GagaYou 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.
Lady GagaA Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. MenckenMy parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
Madeleine AlbrightI was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.
Dwayne JohnsonIn this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerK to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
Bill GatesBecause of my parents‘ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
Madeleine AlbrightThe only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.
Lady GagaMy mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.
Mr. TMy mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.
Bad BunnyBefore I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘
Richard P. FeynmanMy parents weren’t actors or studio executives.
Dwayne JohnsonMy parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
Kamala HarrisMy mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.
Bill GatesCounsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.
Russell M. NelsonI knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.
Kendrick LamarI don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.
Anthony HopkinsSometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.
Russell M. NelsonAll that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.
Russell M. NelsonWhen I moved out, my mom and dad came to help me get settled into my apartment – a place I ultimately got hooked up with in Coach Nelson’s building. We had to figure out how to get all my shoes over here. That was a little stressful.
Stephen CurryI’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.
Bad BunnyWhen my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.
Joe BidenSurely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.
Russell M. NelsonI used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.
Kevin GatesThis is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonMy parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.
J. ColeIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouI believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
Madeleine AlbrightYou don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.
Robert FrostWhen I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
Bill GatesThe only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
Madeleine AlbrightMy mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.
David BowieHowever my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
J. K. RowlingWhenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
James MadisonMy parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.
Jerry SeinfeldMy parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
Kobe BryantPreparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.
Russell M. NelsonParents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.
Russell M. NelsonWhen I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody AllenCall me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
Kurt VonnegutMy parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.
Alice WalkerOf all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
J. K. RowlingChildren begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar WildeMy parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
Alice WalkerIt’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.
Alice WalkerMy biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
Steve JobsWe believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
Walt DisneyWhen I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.
Vivienne WestwoodI grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.
Adam SandlerMy parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say.
Abraham Lincoln