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My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young,
but I spent every summer with my grandparents,
and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview.
He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small
farm with some cows and some pigs.
I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff,
so that's a part of me.
- Forest Whitaker
I can play a man who's despicable.
But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection.
If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
- Forest Whitaker
Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.
- Forest Whitaker
When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from
the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
- Forest Whitaker
I care about people.
In the end, I think they feel it.
It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
- Forest Whitaker
In a lot of films, they're showing more complete,
developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds.
The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes,
and still move past them to see the core of people.
- Forest Whitaker
As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that
would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together.
You always want the energy of the character,
the spirit of the person, to enter you.
I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things
I've done are always with me.
- Forest Whitaker
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting.
I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it.
It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I
felt like maybe I can do it.
It was such a different time than now.
- Forest Whitaker
It is possible for a kid from east Texas,
raised in south central LA and Carson,
who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart,
to touch them and to have them happen.
- Forest Whitaker
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
Pay It Forward.
Gift future generations in proportion to your gratitude.
The nature of life is that we pay forward
our biological creation and nurture.
Our parents gift us with life and nurture,
and we gift our children with life and nurture.
While this much is essential to continued human existence,
choose to take "pay it forward" farther - much farther.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
- Native American Proverb
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
It's YOUR time - it's YOUR life -
YOU get to choose how you use it. T
here is no way that your life is "supposed" to be.
Your parents had their vision for your life.
Your boss, your spouse, your church, your friends,
and even the family next door have their ideas
of how you should live your life.
What about YOUR vision for your life?
What do YOU want?
YES, it matters what you want.
YES you can have what you want.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Parents are not interested in justice,
they're interested in peace and quiet.
- Bill Cosby
When does a belief bring out the best in you?
When does a belief hold you prisoner to yesterday
and limit your options for designing a great future?
Test your beliefs with as much objectivity
as you can bring to the subject.
Be willing to let go of those beliefs
that represent your parents' opinions,
or your communities opinions, rather than your own.
Those beliefs that withstand rigorous testing,
should become the foundation of your being -
your reason for living.
Take action on those beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
- Laurence J. Peter
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings,
as my parents had not much faith in and were never
so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
- Orson Pratt
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
- Samuel Butler
In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but
the parents have to do the steering.
- Benjamin Spock
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to
help parents to bring up children healthy and happy,
to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
- Benjamin Spock
Parents need all the help they can get.
The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires
a vital network of social supports.
- Bernice Weissbourd
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking.
A child is more likely to smoke when they have been
raised in the environment of a smoker.
- Christy Turlington
The car trip can draw the family together,
as it was in the days before television when parents
and children actually talked to each other.
- Andrew H. Malcolm
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth.
They went to Australia and China, and they went to
probably every soccer game I ever played.
- Brandi Chastain
I want to thank my parents for everything I am today -
fat, miserable, and paranoid.
- Anonymous
I was born in very sorry circumstances.
Both of my parents were very sorry.
- Norman Wisdom
My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.
- Andy Partridge
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Everyone has an opinion on many subjects
and is ready to share those opinions -
labeling them as "truth."
Sometimes it is relatively easy
to filter out these opinions.
Upon hearing an ad for the latest
weight-loss powder on late-night TV,
our skepticism leaps to our defense.
However, if we have heard the same opinion for years
from our parents, friends,
government officials, or religious leaders,
we are more likely to believe without questioning
than to raise our filter of skepticism
and ask the hard questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most children threaten at times to run away from home.
This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
- Phyllis Diller
I have three sons, a husband, parents,
and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important
that I have found as I've matured,
is that I have to move on.
- Jami Gertz
Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can,
hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
- Michelle Pfeiffer
I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more -
that I control my life.
- LaToya Jackson
The causes of youth violence are working parents who
put their kids into daycare,
the teaching of evolution in the schools,
and working mothers who take birth control pills.
- Tom DeLay
I can be pretty nasty.
Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards.
But not by my parents' standards, because my parents
were nasty for their day.
- Bridget Fonda
From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic,
and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from
the earliest days of life right through to the present time.
- George J. Mitchell
Raising a family is difficult enough.
But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet.
They don't need more obstacles.
They need more opportunities.
- Bill Richardson
Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company,
but his parents were against it.
- Raj Kapoor
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3,
1941.
- Jack Adams
That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen,
sitting next to your parents and they get to see this
glimpse of me kissing another guy.
- Kate Bosworth
Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important,
and say, We were raised on your characters,
and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
- Joseph Barbera
That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids',
is out of fashion but is right.
It's not arguing parents that children don't like,
it is having one parent.
- Iain Duncan Smith
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds.
My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent.
They're both first-generation Americans.
- Susan Lucci
I think like any marriage, especially when you've had
divorced parents like myself;
you want to try even harder to make it work.
- Princess Diana
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
Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say,
How do we get better as a singer?
- Paula Abdul
It's different today than it was then.
In those days we were strictly amateurs.
If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics,
my parents couldn't have afforded it.
- Dorothy Hamill
I used to work, part time, in a deli,
in those days when your parents made you work just
so you should know what work was like.
And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.
- Hector Elizondo
The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children
as you wish your parents had done unto you!
- Louise Hart
I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the
good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.
- Caroline B. Cooney
Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.
- Mike Fitzpatrick
Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it.
I didn't want to do what my parents did,
you know?
- Corbin Bernsen
Life was very simple.
My parents had come from the North of England,
which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England,
and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
- Roger Bannister
I am the slave of my baptism.
Parents, you have caused my misfortune,
and you have caused your own.
- Arthur Rimbaud
My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.
- Queen Mary
Call me Jonah.
My parents did, or nearly did.
They called me John.
- Kurt Vonnegut
I have frequently gained my first real insight into
the character of parents by studying their children.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
- Peter Ustinov
There were always questions about my parents;
I got so fed up with that.
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
I was very lucky.
My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred
to me that I wasn't equal.
- Victoria Principal
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday.
I wanted to be an actor.
- Quentin Tarantino
One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more.
Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.
- Mary Pipher
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