Parents Quotes

My parents have been with me every step of the way.

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Throughout all the rejections at auditions, and especially when I finally did get something, both my parents have been so supportive and always told me it is all about passion and, if I was doing it because I love it, there's no wrong choice.

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

I'm the only gay person my parents know.

Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

My parents thought all actors were secretly drug addicts, except for Clint Eastwood, whom they admired. But they thought it was very unlikely that I would ever be Clint Eastwood.

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.