#parent

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#go #house #italian-american #parents #school

My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#always #attorney #being #completely #could

For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it. ↗

— Junior Seau

#americanized #any #dinner #go #i

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much. ↗

— Junior Seau

#brought #give #glory #god #had

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#could #happy #i #parents #straight

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#could #happy #i #knew #never

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#death #i #kid #parents #tell

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#convinced #despair #down #everything #hope

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#capable #driver #given #i #i think

The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#better #come #country #given #grandparents