No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 2. Victor on his parents and growing up.
Donald is a psychologically deeply damaged man, based on his upbringing and the situation with his parents. He is not going to get better, and he is, without question, going to get worse. – Mary Trump In CNN interview.
On my parents’ sofa – I’m happiest when I’m having a nap on their sofa, because there’s always a murmur of their voices. I find that very, very comforting. – Daisy Ridley
They brought me into the world. I might have been a mistake one Saturday night after the war. I must have been the greatest mistake they’ve ever made. – Alan Sugar Asked by Piers Morgan what he felt he owed to his parents.
I miss my parents a lot. I obviously don’t see them loads anyway because they live up north. But knowing that they’re only a couple of hours away is a lot different than knowing that they’re 12 hours away. – Harry Styles
If ‘Star Wars’ wasn’t enough to prepare me for a dark future, there was the ‘Planet of the Apes’ franchise, conveniently repeated for me in Los Angeles on KABC’s Channel Seven 3:30 movie. Apes enslaving humans! Mutants with boils and an atom bomb! Ape riots in Century City! They killed baby Caesar’s parents! – Greg van Eekhout
The whole ‘R’ rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents. – Helen Mirren
That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that’s the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera. – Gunther Schuller
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn’t. – Harry Mathews
We have lost sight of nature’s role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can’t go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met. – Gordon Neufeld
My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I’m grateful. – Hugh Hefner
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account. – Hugh Mackay
My view of myself doesn’t change. I know who I am. I’m Cuban American; both my parents are Cuban – one was a little browner than the other one. That’s who I am. I feel sorry that it’s taken so long for the film industry to figure it out and to catch up. – Gina Torres
Growing up with Bronx Irish parents during an era of protests against the status quo, I was especially committed to doing the opposite of what I was told to do. Forty-four years later, I am left with only one means of making a living: comedy. – Greg Fitzsimmons
An Australian girl size 12 and a Swedish girl size 12 are completely different, just because of the way they’re formed. It’s becoming this worldwide movement because people are getting it. We all have two different parents; we’re not supposed to look the same. It’s ridiculous. – Hayley Hasselhoff
I’ve always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn’t come out of my room for years after that. I’d get invited to the movies and I’d say, ‘I’m gonna finish a couple of demos.’ – Hunter Hayes
I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories. – Hannah Kent
I’m lucky that I have my family, I’m lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish. – Hailey Baldwin
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. – H. L. Mencken
I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can’t remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up. – Holliday Grainger
My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success. – Grace Slick
As parents, we’re human beings, too, but sometimes we’re not as understanding as we’d like to be. – Gregory Hines
My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colours and smells. – Harry Lloyd
Toffee Crisp was my downfall. I once ate five at a sitting. Do you really need that third helping, Harry? My parents didn’t overfeed me, nor did they make an issue of it. That’s when things go wrong. It doesn’t have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren’t as happy in that skin. – Harry Melling
