Parent Quotes - Page 128

But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me — me, Jenny Gluckstein — like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is one thing — recognition is something else.

We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight.

... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

Believing that your parents are always right.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist - perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. Or, who knows, perhaps they thought they lived in a world where there was no longer any place for angels.

I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.

I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

The environment itself was culturally a vacuum, in that there was simply nothing that would inspire me in the arts. But my parents were always very supportive of anything that I explored or wanted to do.

There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.

I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird?

As you get older you realize your parents don't look so dumb - and that you're not as smart as you thought you were.

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

I found two true stories. One was in 2003. One was the beginning of 2004. I decided to meld them. Richard Davis' story which is the largest portion of this, a lot of the events are exactly as you saw, exactly what happened and the locations. Exactly as it was said with the chicken house and the strip club. Richard's parents were on the set and they'll tell you that the story is different than their son's. I was very concerned because I called them to say, 'You understand I'm fictionalizing this story?

I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

Obviously I was talking to my parents and my girlfriend all the time, but it's one thing to finally be in the same room and get to be with each other and just hang out.