Peter Orszag Quotes

My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.

My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

Whenever I would get in trouble with my dad, my mom would always save me. So that's why I like my mom - she cool.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted as if they were raising a generation of would-be soldiers. I remember some of my friends' parents who would shake their children's hands at bedtime.

My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad - she cooks, she does everything - and that's the kind of girl I am.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.

If I were like your mother, I would be a woman.

I gotta be honest with you. I'm kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels?

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.

My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.

On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.

I don't have a creepy uncle, but I certainly have many, many uncles. My mom has twelve brothers and sisters, and my dad has two sisters and three brothers. Their maturity level is still hovering around fifteen when they all get together, but they're not necessarily creepy.

I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.

I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'

I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn't have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.