Parents Quotes

I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity.

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

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

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.