Parents Quotes

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults...

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your ...

The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became...

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter...

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that...

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents,...

Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand th...

It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but ...

Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in...

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other ...

I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was blac...

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at ...

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to...

Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.

You'll stay with me?'Until the very end,' said James.

Come on!' he muttered, staring about. 'Where are you? Dad, come on--" But no one came. Harry raised ...

My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight...

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look,

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone —adults promising us their own failed future.

Y'all know how much I love you? "Infinity and back again," I say the way I've said it a million time...

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of hi...

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals wh...

Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and ...

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot af...

My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very h...

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comforta...

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandest...

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your...

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young peopl...

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cogni...

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their c...

Rationalizing him and the glass pipe, Dad smoked crack, but he was not a crackhead; it was just some...

I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets wou...

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the...

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her u...

Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or ...

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my...

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from colleg...

My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. Th...

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by...

I knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early age, y...

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by yo...

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell o...

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's in...

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell ...

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to des...

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the...

The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things...

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

Do you have kids?" Anna asks.I laugh. "What do you think?""It's probably a good thing," she admits. ...

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them....

When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after...

What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made ...

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now thin...

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can dr...

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone...

Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.

When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults ...

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So t...

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over...

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither,...

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they s...

Reading Chip's college orientation materials, Alfred had been struck by the sentence New England win...

When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavem...

I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than yo...

He saw what they either couldn't see or couldn't allow themselves to see, and that only made him mor...

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is trem...

Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most fea...

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything th...

I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know...

We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - ther...

The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering a...

My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has ...

I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted ...

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child rela...

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophica...

Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into...

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for th...

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning an...

I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents' house, and that was my identity at school - if th...

My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over, I'd automatically do impre...

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines...

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, w...

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite fran...

When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if paren...

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we ...

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them ...

You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to...

God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and ...

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.