Top 1200 Both My Parents Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

My parents, who were both professors at Tsinghua University, hoped that I would follow in their footsteps and become a professor.

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

Both my parents were professional actors, so I grew up in a household that had no real financial stability.

The nature of education fundamentally has not changed in a century - and I say this as someone whose parents are both teachers.

My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

Both my parents are teachers, and while they were always cool with what I did, they never let me take my education lightly.

I focused on my career. I grew up super Christian, both my parents are ministers, so I did a purity ceremony when I was a teenager.

Both my parents are wonderful cooks - my father looks like he has been in the kitchen his whole life.

My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.

Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people will do, not everyone is cut out for parenthood. And, as many a childless teacher has proved, raising kids is not the only important contribution a person can make to their future.

By the time I graduated, I'd lost both parents and 23 was a young age to deal with a double loss like that. I felt rootless.

My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the '60s.

My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L.A. when they met each other. So we were always raised in this environment and when we moved to the ashram in Florida it was just like, "Oh, wow, now all of a sudden there's more people like us," because we were growing up in the middle of Texas with our parents, always being the weirdos.

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.

Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.

Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

I come from a family of educationists and both my parents as well as my younger brother and his wife are teachers.

Both of my parents worked, so it was my way of helping around the house by making dinner for my family. I fell in love with it.

I think it's true about people now being closer to their parents, since the '60s, really. The parents are no longer from a different planet, the 1950s ideas of American family. We could be friends with our parents. After the '60s, it wasn't like a person smoking pot was what the parents would be appalled at.

I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.

Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half the time.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

Kerala is doing well because here the kids are encouraged to compete in sports, both by parents and teachers in schools.

It's very hard to coparent when your ex or the father isn't encouraging the children in a way that both parents deserve when you are coparenting.

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.

Both my parents were entrepreneurs and built a nice leisure business. But money was tight when I was growing up.

My parents inspired me by their example. They both grew up in the Depression, and both of them had to quit school when they were quite young to work, because there actually was no choice. So they've always impressed me with their resilience, their good spirits, their courage. I just remember them carrying on and just doing their lives. They really made a strong impression on me.

My family is not only not religious, but my parents are both - they're secularists. My father is actually an atheist and feels very strongly about it.

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

I'm soooooo telling." Puck stood behind her. "You two disobeyed your parents! I'm both shocked and really impressed.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their 20s.

I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

Ripping children away from their parents has a particular shameful history, both in this country and around the world.

I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London.

My parents said they had to make a lot of sacrifices to pay for my education... because they were both druids.

My parents raised my brother and me with two cultures, American and Spanish, and I feel a true sense of belonging to both.

Both my parents worked. So it wasn't like the previous generation where we learned how to cook and bake from our mothers and grandmothers.

The great thing about being married to somebody like Christina is that we both are on the same page. We're both energetic, we're both busy, we're both 100 miles an hour.

Parents do the best they can. But my parents are better grandparents than they were parents.

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

My parents are both super funny, and I always knew I wanted to be on 'SNL.' My mom and I would watch it a lot.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

My parents were typical Asian parents, and they do, like all parents, want their children to be successful. They really encouraged my brother and I to study math and science, and that's what we did as kids.

I know we both have very unusual jobs, but we manage just like any other parents.

My parents are both professional athletes, so I always grew up in an ambitious way and I worked hard.

There are two distinctly, almost surreally different narratives in Israel and Palestine... and to a great extent, both are right and both are wrong. Both peoples have suffered greatly and both have legitimate grievances against the other.

I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.