#rents

I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed. ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#call #embarrassed #get #had #hate

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#change #humor #love #parents #change

My parents were Christian. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#parents #were

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

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die! ↗

— Philip Roth

#boy #die #jewish #man #parents

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

That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#auditioned #back #because #center #come

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#art form #been #being #capable #draw