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I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility.