Rachel Keller Quotes

I remembered moving from Sacramento to Los Angeles with my mum when I was seven and my sister was three or four.

My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.

I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.

When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven.

I have been very, very blessed with not having stage parents.

We are our children's first teachers.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

I was three years old. I had a go-kart that my dad had on a leash so I would not go too quick.

My dad is a really cool guy, but he showed me 'The Shining,' and I was like, 'Hey, dad. I'm thirsty. Let's go get a Coke.' So we went to the vending machine, and he hid... and I turned back, and I was like, 'Dad? Dad?' And the elevator scene came to my mind.

My grandma once told my mama, 'The kid's walking crazy around the cornfield, talking to himself.' I was calling ballgames.

My mother tells this joke about how when I was little I used to say, 'Mummy, all I want is a stable home!' and she'd reply, 'That's all right, darling, we'll buy you a stable.'

I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.