Parents Quotes

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.

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.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.