Parental Work Quotes

When I was a kid, both my mom and my dad worked night shifts, so we would spend a lot of time at my grandfather's house. He taught at UCLA and was just really into history. Before bed, when other kids heard fairy tales, he would tell us about the American founding fathers and the beginning of democracy.

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

My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

It was tough for my family. My father was working; my mother was working. Sometimes I was alone at home after leaving school.

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

Both my parents worked. So it wasn't like the previous generation where we learned how to cook and bake from our mothers and grandmothers.

In my formative years, when I was a little kid, I'd get out of elementary school, and because my mother worked as a nurse, I'd have to find a way to get a ride to the high school and watch my dad's team practice.

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

My family actually moved a lot growing up. I really only lived in one place every five or six years, and then we'd move again. That was just for my dad's work.

With my dad, when I was growing up I saw the amount of work that he put in.