When 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.

This 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.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

However 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.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Right after the draft, when I came out to Oakland, there was a press conference and a dinner with the owner, GM, and Coach Nelson. We did some sightseeing and some house searching the next day, but to be honest, I had no idea what I was doing. I tried to find a spot close to our gym, because I figured that’s where I’d spend most of my time.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

The 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.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

My 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.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Sometimes 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.

I 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.

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

My 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.

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

Because 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.

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.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It’s in the apartment somewhere.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

My 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.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

When 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.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

My 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.

My parents weren’t actors or studio executives.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

I 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.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

All 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.

When 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.

In 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.

I don’t like to feel like I’m in a club when I’m in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

I’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.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

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

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

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.