If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support... →
Ivan Lendl
You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.
I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
Annie Lennox
I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very... →
I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me... →
Sugar Ray Leonard
'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.
Jill Lepore
The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the... →
Doris Lessing
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
Jonathan Lethem