Phyllis Theroux Quotes

My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.

Don't do speed, speed turns you in to your parents.

Stop!" Narcissus got to his feet. "This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be..." He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he'd talked about anything other than himself. "He must be tricking us." Apparently Narcissus wasn't completely stupid.

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't know. It's just where my parents had sex."

He's been in love with Miss Gina since high school, but he doesn't really know how to talk to girls, so he's just been...staying around her since then. He just tends to go where she goes." "Isn't that stalking?" Jazza said. "Legally, no," I replied. "I asked my parents this when I was little. What he does is creepy and socially awkward, but it's not actually stalking.

Your file was empty. Nothing. Not even an immunization record.” He didn’t even pretend to look surprised. He eased back in his seat, eyes gleaming obsidian. “And you’re telling me this because you’re afraid I might cause an outbreak? Measles or mumps?” “I’m telling you this because I want you to know that I know something about you isn’t right. You haven’t fooled everybody. I’m going to find out what you’re up to. I’m going to expose you.” “Looking forward to it.” I flushed, catching the innuendo too late.

Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't.

I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.

Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.

I wish I believed I'd see my parents again, see my wife again. But I know it's not going to happen.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

My parents are both lawyers, and my father always said his best cases have been returns, cases that come into his office from another lawyer. So he said, "Never be ashamed to take a return." All my best roles have happened because someone else dropped out at the last minute, and God bless those actresses for their queeny fits, their sprained ankles, their better job turning up, because that's how I've got my best work.

All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

I'm most proud of my kids, for one, and my family and my parents. Outside of that - what am I proud of? I don't know. I don't look back, I just go forward. I'm just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had nearly nothing, and all of the sudden, with the help of a lot of people and my parents as a model, I amounted to something. And I'm doing some very decent work.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.