Both of my parents have great senses of humor.
I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.
I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s and '70s. My attitude resembles that of my parents, who were born in the '20s and lived through the Gre...
It's quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.
It made a big difference in my life to grow up with a dad who wasn't afraid of how great my mom was.
If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your...
My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a yea...
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.
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it....
My parents are going to kill me!That seems rather harsh...
It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.
Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one can get me here. No one even knows I'm here. I won't get any nasty letters and I w...
My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.
Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, wh...