#parents

And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#dad #differently #fatherhood #get #had

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down. ↗

— Jerry Rice

#came #down #ethic #failure #fear

My parents don't really watch movies at all. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#parents #really #watch

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#children #established #had #nothing #parents

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did. ↗

— Sally Ride

#did #encouragement #friends #got #i

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#parents #were #worked

My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.' ↗

— Nate Ruess

#all day #break #broadway #could #day

I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident. ↗

— Andy Samberg

#asleep #event #how #i #into

When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#around #because #day #every #feel

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children. ↗

— Mark Sanford

#children #families #meager #means #needs