Parent Quotes

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play – regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.

Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

I’m attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

Where are all the sour patch parents?

I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.

The moments that you share with a person do not stop when that person is not in your life anymore.