#parent

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#decided #dropped #got #ground #hit

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#artist #artists #connects #example #father

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. ↗

— David Letterman

#come #every #four #make #make up

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves. ↗

— Philip Levine

#european #families #feel #foreign #i

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. ↗

— Maya Lin

#always #american #ate #comfortable #dinner

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

— Maya Lin

#both #college #made #me #parents

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents. ↗

— Eric Lindros

#best interests #great #had #happened #i

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it. ↗

— Laura Linney

#dread #i #i think #idea #inconceivable

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father. ↗

— Laura Linney

#father #i #parents #spend #weekends

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#parents #problem #put #their #up