#rents

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully. ↗

— Jo Brand

#bore #children #death #effort #funny

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me. ↗

— Melanie Brown

#both #brought #class #class family #comes

I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#does #i #i think #much #our

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#connection #differentiate #educators #learning #many

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#both #course #father #life #like

I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#any #college #college life #dad #embarrass

I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet! ↗

— Sophia Bush

#broadway #comedy #copies #four #funniest

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#actual #breathe #called #eating #grandparents

After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#begging #craig #get #got #i

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#child #give #his #knew #parents