#parent

When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents. ↗

— Andy Murray

#anything #brighter #country #going #grew

Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits. ↗

— Ellen Muth

#dancing #ever #i #kid #little

I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so. ↗

— Ellen Muth

#apart #different #feel #feels #group

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#both #career #college #encouraged #especially

Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored. ↗

— Mike Myers

#being #between #dr #dynamic #evil

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer. ↗

— Mike Myers

#because #beer #books #drinking #eating

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#character #children #forget #frustration #gone

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#created #happy #ignore #nothing #parents

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

#being #being a man #change #changes #changing

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#apparently #being #best #best way #feel