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“To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks is - it feels like you're finally giving back to your parents. It's like you've actually done som...”
“Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the expectation everybody had apart from my parents. Honestly, I, too,...”
“Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.”
“Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.”
“Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all thos...”
“These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.”
“It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.”
“I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in a...”
“We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.”
“My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.”
“I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an only child, and I - sort of nothing made me happier than to make my parents laugh....”
“I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.”
“Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.”
“Each one of us has hated his or her parents at some point in early life … how quickly we turn around our feelings determines our extent of success.”
“I’d never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”
“No matter how long it’s been or how far you’ve drifted, no matter how unknowable you might be, there were at least two people in the world whose job it was to see you, to find you, to recognize you...”
“But Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?”
“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”
“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”
“Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.”
