A Quote by Monica Vitti

I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.

Monica Vitti

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Monica Vitti
Italian - Actress
Born: November 3, 1931

I grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, in New York. My parents were very religious churchgoing people. They were very strict. I was never really allowed to indulge in anything vain. Modesty always. I have three brothers and two sisters, so everything was on a budget.

Wynter Gordon

My parents were strict with school, strict with grades. I had piano classes, horseback riding, dance.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

My parents were always very strict, and they gave me the right beliefs in how to treat people. It was very strict and all about morals - I try to pass that on to my own children.

David Beckham

My parents were very, very strict parents, and they were not used to this new, you know, American custom of letting your children sleep in someone else's house.

Elaine Chao

I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

Tate Donovan

You discover two things when you're a teenager. One, that your parents are not the idols that you thought they were when you were growing up, if you had nice parents. And two, that you have power over them, and you can upset them and confront them and attack them.

Kenneth Lonergan

My parents were very strict and had rules for me and, if ever I was playing outside, I always had a set time to come back in.

Ryan Babel

My parents were relaxed, but very strict on manners. They encouraged us to follow our instincts and desires, so they were quite bohemian in that sense, but we had to work hard and that included chores.

Alexander Armstrong

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

Caroline Corr

There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They were twins. They both became architects. They were both six years older.

Maggie Smith

My parents were super strict, so I didn't have a lot of freedom to hang out at parties or anything like that. I didn't get invited, and I didn't have many friends.

Melanie Martinez

I had two amazing parents, two younger brothers, grandparents, a supportive community. Really loved.

Ryan Leaf

And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

My parents had an inter-reli'gious marriage. My father is a Gujarati and my mother a Bohri Muslim. I am an only child. My par'ents loved me very much, but were very strict: I was a tomboy, always among boys, playing, fighting.

Asha Parekh

You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.