Parent Quotes

My parents did not have any interest in music.

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.

We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.

Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

Less so here, I’ve noticed. I can see why there’s a misconception that it’s easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn’t work out at all. In fact, it’s the reverse.

Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.

I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.

we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but I feel that I did learn a lot about my parents.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

When my husband came to my parents' house for the first time, he asked, 'Why is everyone screaming? Why are they so angry?' I said, 'No one's angry. This is just how we communicate.

I was a super shy, shy kid, so that was kind of my way of expressing myself - to mimic what I saw on TV. I was a bit of a weird kid, but luckily my parents encouraged it.

Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me

One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.

I'm soooooo telling." Puck stood behind her. "You two disobeyed your parents! I'm both shocked and really impressed.

That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.

I'm a homebody. I like having my parents around.

Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.

Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.

When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

"What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?" she asked. "To believe that your children will be just like you."

A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

Start, as parents, with yourselves, number one.

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?

If you haven't saved, your child may have to work. But do what you can to NEVER take out student or parent loans.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.