Derrick Rose Quotes

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.

I remember arguing with my dad to let me dress up to go to a Halloween party in seventh grade, but I never in my childhood went trick-or-treating.

I'm cool with people dressing up as Eleven for Halloween. I definitely want to open my door and give them candy.

Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do. I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat."

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I had a fun childhood, went to regular school.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.

I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offices offered to x-ray candy. I was 7 or 8. The day after Halloween, my brother and I were sorting all of our candy, and my mom asked if she could have a piece of my gum. She put the gum in her mouth, bit down, and there was a shard of metal in it!

Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.

I came to Hong Kong when I was five, but we didn't have any relatives in Hong Kong. My mom is a big movie fan, and she watched all kinds of movies, so when I was a kid, basically, we went to watch a movie every day.

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles.

My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.

I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed to. So it was my dream to work in television.

On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they're also allowed to take candy from strangers - the scariest thing of all.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.