#parent

It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream. ↗

— Diana Lopez

#american #american kids #came #dream #epitome

I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me. ↗

— George Lopez

#bit #both #childhood #different #difficult

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#front #happy #i #jury #lawyer

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#ashamed #been #being #grandparents #having

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bought #bound #boy #british #children

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. ↗

— John M. Ford

#believe #clarity #every #expression #i

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#berkeley #british #four #italian #live

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#because #brain #enough #evaluate #formed

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#charleston #first #first thing #hospital #i

I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#around #between #family #father #give