What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.
I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.
I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.
There are books. . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
Don't do speed, speed turns you in to your parents.
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote down that what they sought was an escape from an old world which dictated their conscience and established their merit based on who their parents.
No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not connected to power, you have a chance in this country to go as far as your talent and your work will take you.
Happiness is not like we were walking around fingering razor blades or anything like that. But it just sort of seems as if - we sort of knew how happy our parents were, and we would compare our lives with our parents and see that, at least on the surface or according to the criteria that the culture lays down for a successful, happy life, we were actually doing better than a lot of them were.
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Women's self didn't die; it had never been born. And when women insisted on their right to have a self, they weren't understood even by their husbands who cried, Haven't I given you enough? And by their parents who joined the crowd who deemed them selfish and responsible for all the problems in their marriage. I remember it all too well.
You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.
My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.
I watched a documentary about Freedom Riders. One young woman told her parents, 'I'm going to leave college to ride and represent the future. ' I thought, 'Who would do that now?' Who would do that for my son?"
I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they grew up, I always find very interesting.
It's not that I succeed, it's that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.
Look at it this way," Ms. Terwilliger said, after several moments of thought. "The callistana thinks of you two as its parents.
Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.
Disadvantaged kids many times don't have the support network that we all have. I know how important my parents were in my life and many of these kids don't have that support network.