I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story.
I watch like, Steve Jobs interviews, I don't really watch TV. I stopped watching TV when I turned like ten because my parents were like, 'TV's really bad for you. '
I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.
There is a divine moment in our lives when we become One. It is called pro-creation and it is reborn continually and forever in the future we call children. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents. . . we fail as God's Children.
I learned from my parents to do my best to not react to negative emotions. I try to think about what has happened and find the lessons that can be learned from these difficult experiences. I try to deal with these negative emotions right away because, if they stay inside, they can hurt and do a lot of damage. I release them as soon as possible so I can be free.
I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.
My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together.
We're not meant to be parents when we're 50.
There's a lot of, unfortunately, a lot of divorced families. I come from a divorced family. . . and you have parents meet someone and they have kids and you're with that whole having to meet new people and be your family. That's always a hard thing to do.
Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.
As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.
I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.
There's an old maxim which is really true for every parent and that is, 'You haven't failed until you quit trying. ' I think that means both in terms of taking appropriate opportunities to teach one's children the right way, but at all times making sure they know that over all things you'll love them.
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
My parents just always taught me to be reasonable.
I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.
The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.
I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I not only survived all this but I have thrived. I've always been psychologically ambitious in that I've never been willing to settle emotionally for anything less then what's needed. I've wanted more then that from life.
Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo.