My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.

Coming from an Italian family, my parents had supermarkets and they said I had to take over as any son should take over the family business - I copped a lot of flak when I said 'no.'

Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.

I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal capacity for unkindness. And if, when, parents do embrace that, it reveals something very ugly to oneself.

My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

As children, we develop some scorn for our parents and their imperfections.

My parents didn't have any money.

I was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States in 1956. It was during the Hungarian Revolution when Russian tanks rolled into Budapest, and my family - me, my brother, and my parents - escaped over the border to Austria. We just took whatever we could carry. It was perilous, but we made it across.

I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.

My parents are musicians. I was listening to the radio and recording songs off the radio on cassette tapes and playing guitars and pianos. Just emotionally responding to music from a very young age.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.

My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices.

Parents go to sleep early. This is universal.

The idea of my parents was to keep us away from the streets. Gelsenkirchen is not a rich city. The crime is above average so they always tried to keep us away from bad things, and I think they were successful.

A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.

My parents weren't very sporty, and football wasn't part of my everyday life. I was never a massive football fan either, but, like everyone else, I used to watch matches on TV.

My parents did a great job.

My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.

I thoroughly enjoy my children's birthdays, despite the fact their parties are an apocalyptic mix of hall-booking, Nerf-gun-hiring, refreshment-organising and talking to parents whose names you've forgotten.

When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.