Denzel Washington Quotes

My parents made us do everything, try everything.

'm just going to be a good friend to my kid. One thing I definitely want to change is that whole 'I don't want you to make the same mistakes' mentality. My dad didn't have much money growing up; he didn't have much of an education. He forced that on me, and I didn't want it.

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.

Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made me and my twin brother Kiel read at least a book a week.

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.

I learned reading and writing from my mother.

Both my parents were a tremendous influence on me. My father's influence came from - he decided well, probably before we were born that as he put it, 'I'm not going to have any kids who are country club bums.'

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.

[My mother] pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.

Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable - their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.

As daughters of our Heavenly Father, and as daughters of Eve, we are all mothers and we have always been mothers. And we each have the responsibility to love and help lead the rising generation.

After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.

I was taught very well. My mom raised me very well, and so did my dad. I've been very blessed to have great parents that cared about me.

My parents’ biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn’t fathom me acting for the rest of my life.