Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents' sacrifices were not in vain.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

When I tell French parents that I know lots of American kids who will eat only pasta or only white rice, they can't believe it. I mean, they can understand how the kid left to his own devices might do that, but they can't imagine that parents would allow that to happen.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.

Had my parents not had visas, had my parents not had the resources to hire lawyers, I would be a DREAM Act kid, too.

My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.

There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles and from there I just loved rock music.

My parents are very lovely people - the sort of people that one should aspire to be like, really.

I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern - small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.

The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church.

I had parents who were incredibly loving and nurturing and always made me feel beautiful, so I never really questioned that.

Obviously the music I listened to growing up helped create my musical pallet. My parents were into pop, soul, disco, RNB, Latin, jazz and Middle Eastern music.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

My parents disagreed sharply with me over the decision to leave school.

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine.

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own.