Pastoral Resources

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun.

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.