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My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized-not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience. Inwardly, Bruce Wayne is still an adolescent watching his parents being murdered. That will never leave him. And people really relate to that.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.

My own parents loved each other very much.

Our parents were musicians.

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.