It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.
Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.
The great thing about my parents is they didn't preach anything they didn't practice.
In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When I got my own apartment for the very first time and they came to stay with me for the weekend, I made them stay in separate bedrooms.
As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion.
The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.
What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber. '
My parents are the people that led me here. My mom helped me learn to sing and she travels with me.
It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.
I was a super shy, shy kid, so that was kind of my way of expressing myself - to mimic what I saw on TV. I was a bit of a weird kid, but luckily my parents encouraged it.
The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten
When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.
My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead.
Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.
If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.
Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be misled by others. Whether you're facing inward or facing outward, whatever you meet up with, just kill it! If you meet a buddha, kill the buddha. If you meet a patriarch, kill the patriarch. If you meet an arhat, kill the arhat. If you meet your parents, kill your parents. If you meet your kinfolk, kill your kinfolk. Then for the first time you will gain emancipation, will not be entangled with things, will pass freely anywhere you wish to go.
My parents and I were all afraid of being poor - really poor.