Parents Quotes

Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

My parents didn't play golf.

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.