My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
Amy Tan

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
Nancy Kerrigan

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
Sara Paretsky

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.
Kim Novak

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
John Philip Sousa

Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.
John Motson

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
John Tukey

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.
Anne Perry

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.
Neil Young

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
Charles de Lint

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
Elmer Davis

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
Norman Ralph Augustine

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
Erma Bombeck

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia

Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.
Richard V. Allen

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
Roald Dahl

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.
Scott Patterson

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.
Rudolf Arnheim

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
William O. Douglas

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglass