Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

I love that phrase that parents say to their children when they cry: 'I'll give you something to cry about.'

I got into tennis because of my parents. They would play a little on the weekend and I liked it when I played.

My parents always used to tell us not to complain about things but do something about them, so 'Can't is not an option' was almost a way of life.

It has to start from the playground and parents teaching kids that diversity is what makes us so wonderful.

Every schoolteacher will tell you that there is no substitute for engaged parents in the education of a child.

Gerry Schoenfeld told me 'Les Parents Terribles' was not going to sell, even though we had Kathleen Turner and Jude Law in the cast. So we called it 'Indiscretions.'

Both of my parents were musicians.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

I don't want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect.

Growing up, my parents always played artists like Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith and Michael Jackson, so I just grew to love their music. And I just love so many diverse artists for different reasons; some for their instruments, some for their edge, some for their vocals.

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

I think a lot of us are a lot more cautious with marriage because of what we saw happening with our parents. I see a lot more healthy marriages in my generation than they probably saw in theirs.

Boarding school was a really pivotal moment. Before I went there, I was so happy. I'm not sure I was ready for it. I was only 13. My parents didn't send me away; it was my choice as well. But I definitely shouldn't have stayed for five years.

Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.

One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.