Teresita Sy-Coson Quotes

It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.

My mom said, 'You are reckless, and you need to get married.' And I was like, 'Okay.'

I actually did want to be an actor when I was younger, but my father didn't want to hear anything about it. And you know what? I went with his decision. I said, 'Yeah, maybe you're right. I don't know anything about acting.'

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.

Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother's definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty and finish every bite of three vegetables, one of them yellow, with every meal.

You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.

My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

When the government leads by the right example, who dares to go astray.

There's certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through. I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don't think I'd have a place to stay.

When I was 16, my mother moved me out of Brooklyn and sent me to Florida to stay with my family for a little bit because I was being bad, not going to school and stuff.

Our father never had to yell at us much when we were growing up. No one ever wanted to let Dad down.

I'm a law-and-order girl: I like people who do the right thing.

It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.

Just do your schoolwork, focus on a sport if you're good at it, do what I did.

My father, who is now in Heaven, was a supporter of La U, and I think the truth is that a lot of my family would like me to end up there. My dad was the pillar of the family, and sometimes people do things for their family as well.

My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

She can't force us to go to the ball. We're grown men, for Lord's sake!" Will cocked an eyebrow at his younger brother. "You don't think she can force us? We are speaking of the same mother, correct? Small frame, enormous will?