“We are the people our parents warned us about.”
Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman
“We are the people our parents warned us about.”
Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman
“No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.”
Brad Meltzer book The Inner Circle
Source: The Inner Circle
Karl Dönitz (1891–1980) President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarine forces during World War II
1943, quoted in "World War II Almanac, 1931-1945: A Political and Military Record" - Page 293 by Robert Goralski - History - 1981.
Jack Valenti (1921–2007) President of the MPAA
The Voluntary Movie Rating System (2004)
Context: I knew that the mix of new social currents, the irresistible force of creators determined to make "their" films and the possible intrusion of government into the movie arena demanded my immediate action.... My first move was to abolish the old and decaying Hays Production Code. I did that immediately. Then on November 1, 1968, we announced the birth of the new voluntary film rating system of the motion picture industry... the emergence of the voluntary rating system filled the vacuum provided by my dismantling of the Hays Production Code. The movie industry would no longer "approve or disapprove" the content of a film, but we would now see our primary task as giving advance cautionary warnings to parents so that parents could make the decision about the movie-going of their young children.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, Address at the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, New York (1936)
Context: Let me warn you, and let me warn the nation, against the smooth evasion that says: "Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!"
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (1984) American actress and singer
Interview with the Hollywood Reporter (4 February 2020)
Oksana Shachko (1987–2018) Ukrainian artist and activist with FEMEN
Interview with Luxemburger Wort (2015)
Cassandra Clare The Infernal Devices
The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess