Parents Quotes

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television.

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.

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

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

My parents live right down the street from the house I grew up in.

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.