Parents Quotes

One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents...

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our signif...

My mother is the antithesis of a typical Jewish mother, she is very soft-spoken and takes more naps ...

Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jump...

It felt strange to call them directly, to hear her father’s “Hello?” after the second ring, and when...

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; m...

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up w...

Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important...

We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of yo...

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just a...

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encour...

Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.

I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind...

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the suppo...

We become weirder parents when we fall more and more in love with Christ.

Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to ...

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children hav...

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while t...

Both of my parents have been actors there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I ...

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a goo...

My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It was...

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even pare...

Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents ...

His parents’ pregnancies must have been all-out chromosomatic war

You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or ...

Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly...

I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies,...

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will sti...

I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they wer...

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his pa...

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who ...

If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.

No matter how old you are, as long as a parent is alive, you are still a child. It is only after bot...

What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are ...

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my inte...

I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercis...

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of co...

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day lik...

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - mo...

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and—by some sad, strange irony—it do...

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just...

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No...

My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my father ...

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of ...

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistaken...

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His pla...

'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divo...

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at f...

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how ...

Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always ...

That we shall use every discovery of science in the preservation of our children's health goes witho...

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my par...

By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, ...

Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my liv...

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future an...

My parents are going to kill me!""That seems rather harsh...

Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of m...

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

Nothing worse... nothing worse that to be stuck somewhere with some married a-hole and have to liste...

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I he...

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying ...

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and,...

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

I believe that it should be the blessing of every child to be born into a home where that child is w...

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next gen...

He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn’t even sta...

Maybe you never stop feeling like an eight-year-old in front of your parents. You resolve to be your...

No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and...

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belie...

Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which j...

It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.

Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my ...

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 ...