Kelvin Sampson Quotes

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked.

I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.

I helped my mom raise so many little sisters. At 11, I was helping get them ready for school, watching over them, putting them to sleep. It's just naturally with me.

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.

So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.

When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

Child care is a family issue—not a government issue.

I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in front of my father!

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 probably took on the father role, as children will. I know I did.

As a child, I perceived my mother as an old woman.

I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.

I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.

Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!

Each day the thought crosses my mind that when they get older, my kids are going to look back and think about how they were raised. I know they will have a lot of questions about things that may not make sense because they were raised so unconventionally.

I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time.

She was just Ma, and I didn't grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn't come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our housekeeper, whom I adored, and after that, it was boarding school.

My mother has always kept the entire family together - my dad, due to his business, has always been travelling, and hence, she at times had to play the role of a father and a mother as well.

My grandmother really inspires me. I lived with her until halfway through middle school, since both my parents worked a lot.

Mommy and Daddy both had jobs when I was a kid, so, like a lot of people my age, TV became Mommy and books became Daddy.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

I grew up as the youngest child in a big, noisy family, and there was always someone around to hang out with.

I was the third parent, growing up, and it did make me a very overly responsible adult.